Yiwen Song
Software Engineer at Spirit Airlines
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiwen Song is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems across fintech, consumer, and infrastructure companies including Stripe, Yelp, Airtable, and now Spirit Airlines. Comfortable across backend and product-focused teams, Yiwen brings a trader’s quantitative intuition and a developer’s taste for concise, sometimes playful code—evident in a GitHub persona that jokes about pseudocode and code golfing. He has a BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a track record of shipping reliable features at scale in fast-paced environments. Known for challenging orthodoxies around testing and ownership, Yiwen balances engineering craftsmanship with a healthy skepticism that surfaces better trade-offs for the team.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
python, pseudocode, Chinese, English
Github Skills (26)
trading10
coinbase10
python-client10
exchange10
wrapper10
websocket-client10
jsonresume9
bitcoin9
ethereum9
orderbook9
python8
refactoring6
css5
javascript5
neovim4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yiwensong/ploggo
Apr 2020 - Apr 2026
Contributions:41 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 6 years 1 month
yiwensong/resume
Sep 2018 - Nov 2021
this is my resume
Contributions:2 releases, 45 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 2 months
cssjavascript
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