Yan J
Staff Software Engineer at Retool
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan J is a full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience building systems spanning signals, networks, automation tooling, data visualization, and UX. He has shipped production software at scale through progressive roles at Tesla (2017–2024) and Salesforce, and now brings that product-driven engineering mindset to Retool in San Francisco. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he focuses on turning complex data and signal problems into intuitive interfaces and reliable automation. Trained at MIT, he pairs rigorous CS fundamentals with hands-on research experience from the MIT Media Lab, which informs a practical yet experimental approach to design and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe High School Affiliated to Renmin University of ChinaBreck School
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (27)
salesforce9
frontend8
react8
salesforce-lightning8
lightning8
javascript7
csv6
easeljs6
code-generation6
excel6
schema6
data-processing6
incremental-search6
code-generator6
drawing6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
anniej42/anniej42.github.io
Dec 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:51 pushes in 6 years 7 months
anniej42/happycamper
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year
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