# CY (Charles Y.) Tan

> Engineering, UI/UX

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/cy

Detail-oriented, engineering and design background, enjoys teamwork and teaching.

Full stack, AI tooling + design frameworks expertise, infrastructure and architectural experience, passion for high performance web animation (Canvas2D, WebGL, & SVG), UX strategy, and product design.

## Work Experience
### Sr UX Engineer, Search @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer - Frontend Infrastructure @ Flexport
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Collaborated closely with a team of designers and illustrators, to build out our design system Latitude (https://www.flexport.com/design).
• Reworked Flexport's newer app development platform, “Workspaces”, to support new features, improve devex, and increase inter-app consistency.
• Created migration paths and support for multi-project work by leveraging webpack, yarn, and more to enable projects to share configs, components, and tooling.
• Drove our migration to Next.js, writing documentation, creating architecture diagrams, presenting on the framework, and building out the preliminary and formal web applications.
• Taught 200+ people in our onboarding course for design systems I co-developed with our designer which features an interactive Figma game and coding exercises.
• Improved build times by ~186% for our Next.js application with optimizations in Bazel.
• Implemented data hydrated server-side rendering in Next.js with automatic prefetching of existing GraphQL queries by writing a Relay middleware system, allowing developers to gain SSR benefits without having to write any new code in most existing cases.
• Migrated several outdated systems to GraphQL in Ruby and Rails.
• Mentored 3 engineers on our frontend infrastructure team, supporting, teaching, and assisting.
• Co-spoke with a designer at the worldwide Reactathon 2020 on design systems at Flexport.

### Product Designer @ Crux
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Transitioned to Product Design at Crux where I continued to develop wireframes and maintain our component library at Crux while developing and assisting engineering.
• Built, developed, and maintained the company website and marketing assets.
• Worked with our design team to produce high quality product mockups and formalize fonts, color, and language.
• Helped developers grow and transition as I left my engineering roles.
• Worked with Product to hire, onboard, and grow the design team.

### Software Engineer Technical Lead/UX Strategy @ Crux
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Data management and pipeline services and tools born out of Incapture Technologies.
• Pitched, architected, and developed the client web application. This included implementing the technical and development stacks as well as launch.
• Led workshops and taught development on the MERN stack. This included Flow, Redux, Sagas, Jest, and advanced React concepts.
• Documented the core components of the web applications and general development.
• Wrote proposals on and helped develop the Crux data architecture and core APIs.
• Conceived and pitched the brand and concept. Designed the logo, the visual signature, and illustration style.
• Designed and implemented the company website as well as 3 more redesigns.
• Developed web application wireframes and prototypes .

### Lead UI Engineer @ Incapture Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Former software development and advisory firm in financial services. Is now Crux Informatics.
•	Retired existing Angular webapp and launched a webapp renewal project updating the architecture, design, and user flow (Videos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1124M8wtNeBO2QZcyo4zDvzRoFXdK2ek0?usp=sharing)
•	Standardized and improved server middleware
•	Worked on frontend optimizations, render time, and introducing better practices leading to significant performance gains in time to render and responsiveness.
•	Developed new API designs for the company's data workflow and management services.
•	Updated UI designs and introduced animations and transitions across the webapp
•	General development for proprietary language, "Reflex", based on Java

### UI Engineering Intern @ Liferay Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Diamond Bar
•	Augmented and improved an existing Liferay template
•	Development of Liferay framework and Alloy-UI language.
•	Wrote unit tests for various framework features and utilities.

### Engineering Intern @ Mwave
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
•	Standardized catalog databases across partners in Microsoft Access
•	Cleaned product datasets for major clients
•	Wrote web-scraping scripts to gather information for product catalog


## Education
### UX Design
UC Berkeley Extension
Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charlesytan
- Portfolio: https://www.charlesytan.com/
- Portfolio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-SqluvlCttowKLCyTndrUasbqS-2biiQ/view?usp=sharing

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Source: https://flows.cv/cy
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/cy/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-25