Weixi Yen
Co-founder at Sleeper
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolWeixi Yen is a seasoned product-focused engineer and co-founder with 16 years of experience building engaging user interfaces and consumer-facing systems from early startups to mobile game publishers. Based in Redwood City, he led UI engineering and managed teams at Storm8, helped create social games at Kabam, and has run product and technical operations hands-on since founding Sleeper in 2015. His background spans front-end JavaScript, mobile UX, server administration and full-stack integrations—skills sharpened by roles that blended design, usability research and engineering. An active open-source contributor, he improved the popular jquery-filedrop plugin by fixing multipart upload bugs, enabling Chrome sendAsBinary support and making the code compressor-friendly for multiple drop zones. Hands-on and pragmatic, he pairs entrepreneurial product instincts with deep UI craftsmanship and operational know-how.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
file-upload10
html8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
weixiyen/jquery-filedrop
Jun 2010 - Feb 2017
jQuery plugin - drag and drop desktop files and POST to a URL to handle files.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Weixi primarily focused on enhancing the `jquery-filedrop` plugin, a jQuery plugin for file uploads. Their contributions involved code formatting improvements, addressing a multipart request syntax error, and adding support for Chrome's `sendAsBinary` function. The user also made changes to licensing, and refactored the code to allow for multiple drop area instances. They also made code compressor-friendly and fixed filescount bug.
drag-and-dropjquery-plugin
blitzstudios/snowflake
Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
A distributed Snowflake generator in Elixir.
Contributions:9 releases, 18 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
elixirsnowflake
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