Yisong Qin
Software Engineer at Rippling
San Carlos, California, United States
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Top SchoolYisong Qin is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable developer-facing and commerce infrastructure, currently contributing to Rippling from San Carlos, CA. Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Meta, he worked on Smart Glasses core infrastructure, internationalization dev infra, and commerce platform projects. He has meaningful open-source experience on Facebook's fbt internationalization framework, improving Babel plugin runtime behaviors for plurals, pronouns, enums, and token handling. Comfortable across backend systems and infra for localization at scale, he brings practical experience turning complex i18n needs into reliable runtime solutions. His background—studying at Rice University and advancing through large-product environments—combines strong engineering foundations with a focus on developer tooling and cross-language internationalization.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Science, Bachelor's degree, Science at Rice UniversityHigh school, AP, High school, AP at Beijing National Day School
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (8)
i18next10
localization10
javascript10
internationalization10
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
eslint7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/fbt
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
A JavaScript Internationalization Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Yisong primarily worked on the `facebook/fbt` repository, a JavaScript Internationalization Framework, contributing to various aspects of the Babel plugin. Their work included implementing runtime calls for different fbt nodes (Plural, Pronoun, Enum, Name) and integrating new features. They also made improvements such as token aliasing and handling string descriptions. This indicates a focus on enhancing the functionality and internal workings of the fbt framework.
translationjavascriptframeworkinternationalizationbabel-plugin
pkqinys/Quantitative
Jul 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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