Yifang Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYifang Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building bioinformatics and cloud-native solutions, currently contributing to Google’s engineering efforts from Waterloo. With a strong academic foundation (masters from Southeast University and McMaster) and early work in communications and router performance, she blends rigorous algorithmic thinking with practical systems engineering. Her background includes desktop proteomics and antibody-sequencing tools, teaching data structures and algorithms, and shipping Android and C++/Matlab research prototypes—evidence of cross-domain versatility. At Google she has progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, focusing on bioinformatics on GCP and translating domain-specific workflows into scalable cloud services. Colleagues would point to her rare combination of deep technical chops, scientific domain fluency, and an educator’s patience for mentoring and clear design.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.9, Master's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.9 at McMaster UniversityBachelor's Degree, Communications Engineering, 3.7, Bachelor's Degree, Communications Engineering, 3.7 at Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyMaster's Degree, Communication Engineering, 3.7, Master's Degree, Communication Engineering, 3.7 at Southeast University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (31)
google-cloud-platform10
dataflow10
beam10
vcf-files10
batch10
streaming10
bigquery9
java9
gcp9
python9
sql9
golang9
data-processing8
big-data8
streaming-data8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
allieychen/gcp-variant-transforms
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
GCP Variant Transforms
Contributions:19 PRs, 1023 pushes, 291 branches in 1 year 8 months
gcpgoogle-cloud-platform
allieychen/variant-annotation
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Use cloud technology to annotate human sequence variants in parallel.
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
sequenceannotateparallel
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