Yana Chen
Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer at Twitch
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYana Chen is a software engineer and site reliability specialist with eight years of experience building observability and developer-facing tools, currently focused on OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing at Baseten. Based in NYC, she has driven observability improvements and managed ElasticSearch/Kibana operations at Bubble, and she combines hands-on infrastructure work with a strong developer-experience mindset. Outside of traditional engineering roles she streams engineering sessions on Twitch—refactoring bots, building CLIs, and solving algorithm puzzles live—bringing a playful, collaborative approach to problem solving. Her background in research and tutoring informs a teaching-first style: she prioritizes enabling others’ curiosity through tooling and cultural practices that foster learning.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology at Hunter College
Chinese, English
Github Skills (36)
stack-based10
esoteric-language10
wikipedia9
programming-language9
compiler9
twitch8
react8
language-design8
fintech8
manifold8
foundation8
mobx8
javascript7
loops7
chat6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WhereIsX/special-sauce-bot
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
twitch chat bot
Contributions:127 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 11 months
botchattwitchchat-bottwitch-chat-bot
WhereIsX/advent-of-code
Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 4 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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