Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dartmouth College

Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Working on our first game Bugaboo Pocket

Solo programmed the game in C# using Unity

Co-designed the gameplay and storyline

Spearheaded the business side of development

Elytra Games

Co-Founder

Led the frontend work on a COVID19 related resource that explored jobs skills in demand for workers displaced by the pandemic

Worked on recruiter facing products that generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue

Helped design and implement user facing pages using Ember.js

Improved debugging tools in Ember.js to improve frontend development

Participated in various diversity related initiatives such as Tech Women and REACH.

LinkedIn

Senior Software Engineer

Architected and implemented a new search engine solution from the ground up using Elasticsearch, Node.js/Express and AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana Service, S3)

Built a new frontend component for audio archive search using ES6 React/Redux and CSS 

Created a proof of concept fullstack authentication system to manage KQED membership by linking 

Auth0 to Salesforce and Eloqua using React, Node.js, Sequelize and MySQL

Contributed to a precipitation, snowpack and reservoir API using Python, Beautiful Soup and MySQL

Set up continuous integration for both search services and frontend React architecture using GitHub, CodeShip and AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Cloudfront)

Spearheaded best practices for the engineering team including testing using Mocha/Chai/jsdom, git workflow, documentation and wrote coding challenges for the interview process

KQED

JavaScript Engineer

Redesigned 360north.org for responsiveness and improved user experience using JavaScript, CSS, WordPress and third party APIs

Contributed to the redesign of ktoo.org

Deployed an iPad app about the Alaska Legislature to the Apple App Store

Built a matching game about the Alaska State Senate using jQuery and GreenSock

Analyzed website SEO and social media engagement with Google Analytics, Facebook Insights and Twitter Analytics

KTOO and Coast Alaska

New Media Producer

For my internship, I created a multimedia package for the Translational Center, which included a series of podcasts, web video, and photo slideshow. I also wrote blog posts for the Inside Joslin blog and made animations explaining how type 1 diabetes develops on a cellular level.

Joslin Diabetes Center

New Media Intern

Worked in the butterfly collections room. Duties included photographing historical butterflies and their labels to add to an online database and data entry.

Sarah Yu