Yiwen Song
Software Engineer at Meta
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 (32)
coinbase10
coinbase-api10
python-client10
exchange10
gdax-api10
wrapper10
websocket-client10
trading9
api-client9
jsonresume9
bitcoin9
ethereum9
api9
orderbook9
reorder8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yiwensong/ploggo
Apr 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:37 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 11 months
yiwensong/.files
Dec 2017 - Nov 2023
yiwen's dotfiles for fish, vim, and tmux
Contributions:4 PRs, 108 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years
vimtmuxneovimfishdotfiles
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