Yawen Tian
Senior Software Engineer at Instacart
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYawen Tian is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering highly scalable, reliable distributed systems used by billions of customers. Currently on the Orders Platform at Instacart and previously building experimentation and feature-flag infrastructure at Dropbox, she specializes in systems that enable safe, measurable product evolution at scale. Her background includes merchant-facing platforms at Wish and multiple engineering roles where she honed backend architecture and operational excellence. Trained in computer science at the University of Toronto, she combines strong academic fundamentals with hands-on production experience across large consumer services. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to bridge product needs and engineering constraints to ship resilient systems. Beyond core engineering, she brings an emphasis on measurability and experimentation that helps teams iterate confidently.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
797reputation
76kreached
5answers
30questions
Github Skills (9)
ajax6
wagtail6
django-cms6
javascript6
meteor6
python6
django6
django-project4
portal2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Franktian/Plane-battle
Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:94 commits in 3 months
Franktian/leetcode
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:127 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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