# Di Fan

> Staff Software Engineer at Waymo

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/difan

"Take Risks. Learn From Your Mistakes. Appreciate the Role of Chance."

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## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Simple and scalable simulation configuration, execution, and result storage

### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building the world's Most Experienced Driver.

Simulation Team

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Search > Image Search > Tenor
Tenor is an online GIF search engine and database. More than 400M people use Tenor every month to communicate with an animated GIF that expresses their exact thoughts or feelings.

### Owner, Consulting Engineer @ Tax Technology LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York, NY
Tax Technology LLC provides modern and easy-to-use technology solutions for tax professionals

### Software Engineer @ YCharts, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
YCharts is the fastest growing financial data and analytics platform on the market today. 
Combining the power of an institutional level platform, with the ease of a modern web application, YCharts offers company, fund, index and macroeconomic data.

### Associate @ Andersen Tax
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
• Created, implemented, and supported Excel and JavaScript programs that automated tax preparation and administrative tasks, improving process efficiency by 30%+
• Designed and taught technical training on Excel, Acrobat, and other tax technical topics
• Mentored new associates and interns by helping them build a strong understanding of tax issues and firm processes and by stimulating and encouraging their desires to keep learning

### Teaching Assistant - International Taxation @ Penn State University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
• Boosted students’ understanding of international taxation by helping them reinforce the conceptual framework and by explaining complex tax laws in easy-to-follow ways


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
Penn State University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### Dual M.S. in Journalism and Computer Science
Columbia University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Computer Science
42 Silicon Valley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### Computer Software Engineering
Fullstack Academy
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/difan
- Website: https://di.fan
- GitHub: https://github.com/dayfine

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Last updated: 2026-03-22