Yousef Issa
Software Engineer at Plaid
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYousef Issa is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently contributing to Plaid’s Liabilities, Investments, and Transactions efforts from San Francisco. He previously engineered high-impact services at Zumper, where he led a microservices redesign that cut resource consumption by 90%, migrated a large codebase to Python 3, and built an email delivery platform serving millions of messages per month. Comfortable across the stack, he has shipped programmatic ad products, data engineering tooling (Airflow 2 upgrades and A/B testing engines), and reusable service templates to boost developer velocity. A Northwestern CS graduate and former KPCB engineering fellow, he blends strong product sense with pragmatic engineering—often finding cost and performance wins in legacy systems. Outside work he signals a personal interest in sneakers, reflecting a detail-oriented and culture-aware personality.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (87)
dependency-management10
python10
to-do10
hyper10
python-packaging10
autonomous-agents10
ai10
dependency-manager10
artificial-intelligence10
packaging10
openai10
javascript9
twitter9
thunderbird9
linux9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yousefissa/Adidas-Sitekey
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 3 months
twitter-botadidasbotrunstwitter
yousefissa/Twitter-Follow-and-Unfollow-Bot
Dec 2016 - Sep 2019
A bot that allows you to follow and unfollow users on twitter. Also allows you to do many other things.
Contributions:65 commits, 2 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 years 8 months
twitter-botpythonfollowbotto-do
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