Summary
Yi-yang Chen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack and embedded systems, currently driving product and platform work at Silicon Labs. He has architected CI/CD and cloud deployments, built PKI and custom manufacturing services, and led documentation and review engines using a broad stack (Vue, React, NestJS, Python, Java, Postgres, AWS). Comfortable bridging hardware and software, he began his career developing IoT reference designs and embedded firmware for Zigbee/Thread/Z-Wave, and now coaches offshore teams and shapes development workflows. Pursuing advanced study in security at Georgia Tech while holding an ECE degree from UT Austin, he brings uncommon depth across firmware, backend services, and secure infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Georgia Institute of Technology
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Clear Lake High School
English, Chinese, Mandarin