Christine Y. Yen                                                                 San Francisco, CA
cyen@christineyen.com
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I'm a product-oriented engineer who thrives in all-hands-on-deck environments and loves having
fingers in many parts of the pie. I've worked at a variety of startups and large companies, and am
becoming less enchanted with the question "what can we build?" and more interested with the
question of "why does it matter?"

I feel strongly about engineering-driven teams with a culture of sharing knowledge.

Work Experience ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PARSE (acq. by Facebook May 2013)                                                San Francisco, CA
Engineer, Tech Lead                                                              Oct 2012 - Apr 2015
- Owned Parse Analytics across the stack, from product definition to debugging database drivers
- Billions of events processed per day to drive external products and internal reporting
- Built Cassandra-based system for realtime analytics, data flow 2x'ed every 4 months
- Tore down legacy logging system and set up data pipelines using FB infrastructure
- Worked closely with FB teams to leverage data infra for Parse customers: Hive, Presto, Puma
- Launched and maintained several Analytics products; touched Go, Ruby, and JS on a regular basis
- Led team of 4 engineers to streamline and enrich the Parse.com experience

RIDEJOY (Contract / Short-term)                                                  San Francisco, CA
iOS Engineer                                                                     Dec 2011 - Sept 2012
- Sole developer of iPhone application for existing Rails web service
- Built out completely custom UI and complex optimizations for mapping/geo data
- Implemented and maintained API layer and reliable mobile authentication

VENUETASTIC                                                                      San Francisco, CA
Co-Founder                                                                       Dec 2010 - Dec 2011
- Sole developer for Venuetastic, a marketplace for event space bookings
- Launched external site and internal tooling in 3 months as part of Y Combinator W2011
- Rapidly prototyped several product iterations to guide design based on user feedback
- Built front-/backend using Rails/PostgreSQL, Solr, jQuery

AARDVARK (acq. by Google Feb 2010)                                               San Francisco, CA
Engineer                                                                         June 2009 - Dec 2010
- Built dashboard to capture real-time system stats and activity, emphasized caching and performance
- Developed "etiquette matching" in routing logic, tracked eligibility for "edgy"/"lousy" questions
- Acquired Feb. 2010, involved in the storage/business logic layer of rewrite, analytics lead

Education ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY                                            Cambridge, MA
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, June 2009
- Cumulative GPA: 4.7/5.0 (4.8 in major)

Languages/Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Ruby, Go, Objective-C, SQL, Javascript, Swift, CSS, Python, Java; vim, git, *nix, React

Publications ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C. Yang, C. Yen, C. Tan, S. Madden, "Osprey: Implementing MapReduce-Style Fault Tolerance in a
  Shared-Nothing Distributed Database," in Proceedings of ICDE, 2010.

Activities -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Technovation - mentor, 12-week entrepreneurship/coding program for HS girls (2010, '14, '15)
- CodeNow - volunteer/trainer, programming training sessions for HS kids (2013, '14, '15)
- Science Club for Girls - 'mentor scientist', weekly after-school program for K-5 girls (2009)