Timothy Yen
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Yen is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating distributed systems across startups and large tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has held senior engineering roles at Twitch and Brex, contributed to platform work at Amazon, and most recently joined Anthropic after building workflow and reliability-focused systems at Temporal Technologies. Timothy combines deep backend engineering with pragmatic product sensibilities, shipping resilient services that scale for millions of users. He’s comfortable in fast-moving, production-critical environments and has a track record of improving system reliability and developer velocity. Trained in computer science at UMass Amherst, he brings both foundational rigor and a preference for elegant, maintainable solutions. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who balances careful architecture with hands-on execution and a curiosity for the edge cases that break distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (95)
redis-streams10
terraform10
redis-client10
golang10
microservice-framework10
graph10
distributed-systems10
workflow-automation10
go10
workflow-management10
redis10
temporal10
redis-cluster10
terraform-cloud9
hashicorp9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kollektiv/redis
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Type-safe Redis client for Golang
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
golangredisredis-clienttype-safesafe
kollektiv/Adv360-Pro-ZMK
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Production repository for the all-new Advantage360 Professional using ZMK engine
Contributions:10 pushes in 10 days
professionalproductionzmk
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