Young Yu
Software Engineer at DoorDash
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoung Yu is a Software Engineer II based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building search and distributed systems at scale. Currently focused on Search Experience at DoorDash, he progressed internally from SDE I to SDE II while bringing prior Alexa-focused internship experience at Amazon. He has a strong academic foundation with a 3.9 GPA in Computer Science from Purdue and a particular interest in databases and cloud computing. Known for a pragmatic, results-driven approach, he balances deep systems thinking with shipping customer-facing search improvements. Notably, his career shows a pattern of rapid ramp-up in complex production environments and a continued appetite for learning emerging backend and distributed technologies.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue University
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (20)
fitness10
health10
expressjs10
menu-item9
nutrition9
nodejs9
webapp9
mongodb9
react8
constant-time6
priority-queue5
flutter3
queue3
counting2
ais2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yyu2002/StatsObj
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
StatsObj used for working with strings. The priority queue based StatsObj makes returning the most frequent elements run in constant time, while the hashing idea based StatsObj makes adding and counting the elements run in constant time. The basic StatsObj is also provided.
Contributions:12 PRs, 32 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 11 months
hashingwhilestringsconstant-timeelements
youngbryanyu/TextWorldGame
Mar 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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