Stephen Yeung
Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Yeung is a software engineering manager in Seattle with 11 years of experience building and assuring large-scale web services, front-end applications, and in-house tooling at companies including LinkedIn and Microsoft. He blends hands-on development (Java, C#, .NET, SOAP/REST) with deep test automation and performance/stress testing expertise, having authored frameworks and test suites to improve QoS and release reliability. As an engineering leader he emphasizes ROI-driven solutions, clear cross-team communication, and mentoring—progressing from test engineer to staff engineer to manager at LinkedIn. His open-source contributions focus on improving JS test tooling and ESLint rules, adding test reporters and richer test context to well-known projects like testem. Not obvious from his title: he has led security and low-cost production-like data solutions to stabilize testing at scale. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo and consistently combines analytical rigor with pragmatic delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, B.S.C.S., Computer Science with a Business Option, Bachelor's Degree, B.S.C.S., Computer Science with a Business Option at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
qunit10
eslint10
eslint-plugin10
ember10
test-automation10
testing10
xunit9
tapi9
nodejs9
guideline9
linting9
imp8
cicd8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
testem/testem
Nov 2015 - Apr 2020
Test'em 'Scripts! A test runner that makes Javascript unit testing fun.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 43 commits, 40 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stephen's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the `testem/testem` repository. They implemented and extended test reporters to include skipped tests within the xUnit and TAP reporters, which involved modifications to the reporting logic and test assertions. The user also added functionality to include additional testing information, such as test contexts, in the test output, ensuring more robust testing. Furthermore, the user contributed to the test suite by adding tests for handling browser console logs.
javascripttest-runnerunit-testing
ember-cli/eslint-plugin-ember
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
An ESLint plugin that provides set of rules for Ember applications based on commonly known good practices.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 2 days
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the project by writing and maintaining tests for an ESLint plugin designed for Ember applications. Their work involved creating new test files, fixing linting issues within test files, and adding checks to ensure proper code behavior. These changes included testing for the correct handling of imports and exports in the Ember environment.
embereslint-pluginlintingeslint
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