Sydney Yin
Haskell Developer at Co–Star
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSydney Yin is a Haskell developer and full-stack engineer with 11 years in software, including a decade in the games industry and recent work at Rec Room scaling build and deployment infrastructure. They specialize in developer tooling and automation—cutting build times from hours to minutes, creating cross-platform release pipelines for consoles, and building internal systems that enabled a consistent weekly ship cadence. Sydney contributes to open-source front-end projects (notably improving TypeScript typings for the popular react-spring animation library), bringing a pragmatic eye for type safety and developer experience. Comfortable in both systems and user-facing code, they pair technical design authorship with hands-on fixes for high-priority production issues. Based in Seattle with a mathematics background from the University of Washington, Sydney also composes song covers and reads science fiction, reflecting a creative bent that informs intuitive tooling and UI work.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at University of Washington
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Github Skills (7)
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
animation10
react10
typescript-types10
animate10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pmndrs/react-spring
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
✌️ A spring physics based React animation library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sydney primarily contributed to the type definitions within the `react-spring` library. Their commits focused on refining the TypeScript definitions, addressing missing properties, and ensuring correct prop forwarding. They made adjustments to `KeyframesProps`, `SpringProps`, `TrailProps`, and `TransitionProps`, correcting omissions and eliminating overly permissive type definitions to increase type safety. These changes likely improve the developer experience by providing more accurate type checking for users of the library.
physicsreactreact-springanimationspring
SaintsRobotics/WebDashboardBot-2017
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 months
cssjavascripthtml-css-javascriptfrontendjavascript-css
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