# Emily Yin > SWE @ SpaceX | CS @ Columbia University '25 | Coach @ MLH Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/emilyyin Computer Science student at Columbia University graduating May 2025 (early graduation). I am an entrepreneurial thinker and leader who excels at end-to-end, clean-sheet design and ground-up projects or initiatives. My interests include programming and developing technology for real-world challenges, including software development, cybersecurity, low-level software, and embedded systems, and I am constantly striving to expand my knowledge through new opportunities. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ SpaceX Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Software Engineering for Starlink Consumer Platform ### MLH Hackathon Coach @ Major League Hacking Jan 2024 – Present As an MLH Coach, I regularly travel to hackathons around the world, directly working with organizer teams to ensure events run smoothly, mentoring hackers, and representing the global hacker community. Hackathons staffed: SBHacks (UCSB), McHacks (McGill University), Tech for Change (Boston University), cuHacking (Carleton University), HackNewHaven (University of New Haven), ProfHacks (Rowan University), CruzHacks (UC Santa Cruz), HackDartmouth (Dartmouth College), Hack the North (University of Waterloo), Girl Hacks (NJIT), StormHacks (Simon Fraser University), CalHacks (UC Berkeley), HackRPI (RPI) I also host livestreams on Twitch/YouTube educating technologists around the world on technical content as a part of monthly MLH Global Hack Weeks. ### Teaching Assistant @ Columbia Engineering Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States Teaching Assistant for COMS 4995 — Innovation & Design Lab with Professor Gary Zamchick ### Quantitative Development Intern @ Walleye Capital Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States I worked on 4 main projects while at Walleye: 1. I created and deployed a logging capability for a custom Linux command web application, in order to filter, store, and organize logs for the application. 2. I refactored our web app form creation infrastructure to significantly streamline and clean up the process of writing React forms. Using this new infrastructure, I updated and added functionality to our core backtester, including creating new custom-controlled components, adding new modals to verify input values, and performing smarter input validation. I made sure to determine focus areas of development that would maximize impact, by meeting with team members and thoroughly defining value add features. 3. I implemented the first instance of containerization in our infrastructure, by containerizing a development environment and various web applications, including configuring networking between containers for a client-server architecture web application. 4. I created a multi-part Python ETL pipeline and interactive web dashboard component with custom authorization that calculated, stored, and visualized factor portfolio returns using internal data. ### FIRST Robotics Mentor @ FIRST Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States As one of the key mentors of FRC Team 9295 The Harlem Rails, a brand new robotics team of high school students, I guide the team in all stages of building a robot, as well as everything else it takes to run a team. Given that this team was just formed at the start of 2023, I am heavily involved in many foundational operations, including fundraising, team structure, and outreach. Additionally, I mentor and assist the students in learning to code, and programming their robot. My prior experience in high school with the FRC Robotics program greatly lends to this role, allowing me to effectively contribute to all aspects of the team. ### Software Intern @ 355Code Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 I work on the marketing and instructing teams of 355Code, a coding lesson startup. On the marketing team, I work to develop strategies to promote the company and increase our user base, as well as to introduce new products. On the instructing team, I work with elementary school through high school-aged kids on JavaScript and Python curriculum. ### Software Development Intern @ Drawbridge Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 I worked on a small team to support the migration of our code and DevOps to Azure DevOps. I refined the migration process for Node.js libraries and APIs, which included rethinking our secrets management, writing custom Azure Pipelines, setting up and configuring Node APIs for Docker, implementing custom npm scripts, and refining SQL scripts. As a part of our migration effort, I also created the infrastructure to automatically update NGINX configurations on several different servers through SSH on an Azure Pipeline. I created a standalone Razor Page web app in ASP.NET Core with a custom user interface that allows our sales team to select client data files, and then corroborates them to ultimately perform exact string matching and fuzzy searching and automatically update client data. I underwent the entire Software Development Life Cycle for this project, including creating the build and release pipelines and deploying it as a container app. It is an actively used product for our company's sales team. ### Software Development Intern @ Drawbridge Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 I was tasked with the clean-sheet design task of implementing a bridge from Salesforce.com to an internal service fulfillment platform via two REST APIs. This was particularly challenging, as it was the organization's first SFDC integration, so I needed to research options and propose solutions for both application-level logic as well as platform improvements to support secrets management. I wrote new middleware logic to handle an API-KEY, and hosted the automation on Microsoft Azure. Additionally, I designed and added new tables to the database schema, as well as writing stored procedures, to support storage of the newly imported data. All code was comprehensively tested using Jest, Postman, and dotnet unit testing. The project was an on-time success. The primary implementation language was C# using .NET core for client and server API implementations, however I also used SQL, Python, and JavaScript. ### Founder, Vice Chair @ Town of Clifton Park Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 I was a founder and vice-chair of the Clifton Park Youth Advocacy Council (CPYAC), our town's first student-comprised town committee. I promoted and expanded this town committee, and as a group, we worked on many town initiatives, including a COVID volunteer thank-you event. Additionally, we hosted many community discussions between students, school administrators, community members, and town leaders on a number of local and national issues, including police brutality, racial bias, and our local policy on organized protests. ### Founder, Guest Speaker, Host @ New York Advocacy Conference Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 I was a student founder of the New York Advocacy Conference (NYAC), a statewide event where myself and leaders across the state, including NYS Deputy Secretary of Education Dan Fuller, spoke to FRC students about the importance of advocacy and what starting steps they could take. In particular, NYAC introduced and organized advocacy for Bill A1219 (nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/A1219), a grant funding bill for underprivileged FRC teams that I helped draft. Over the span of several months, I coordinated speakers and spaces for the event, promoted the event, and managed signups. NYAC was a hybrid event across New York State, that I hosted, and gave a talk at about starting steps to advocacy, where over 200 students and adults across the state gathered at select statewide locations to participate. ### Open Source Developer @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 I contributed as a full-stack developer for RPI's RCOS (Rensselaer Center for Open Source), working on their new website, Telescope. I utilized Hasura, Postgres and GraphQL to manage new users, projects, roles, and more information in an API, and Rust to develop a front-end search capability to filter, search, and display results based on these criteria, as well as based on different user roles and permissions. I ran everything through Docker containers. Additionally, I created documentation for the README file on how to install and run Telescope in order to contribute to the open-source software. ### Researcher @ The Summer Science Program Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 As a researcher at the Summer Science Program (SSP) Astronomy, I worked with two partners to study near-Earth asteroid HA22. We submitted several observing requests to access telescopes and observe our asteroid over the span of a month, processed the received data, and eventually utilized the progression of observations to determine the asteroid's orbital elements and other data. We wrote a final paper on our findings, which included the calculated orbital elements, test particle integration test fates, orbit projection/visualization in Python, orbital determination code in Python, and our methodology, namely Method of Gauss and Monte Carlo simulations. Finally, our data was submitted to the Harvard Minor Planet Center to help with their mission on tracking orbital objects to gain insight on potentially dangerous objects and to perform further research. ### Researcher @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 As a researcher for MIT's PiPACT program, I investigated the potential for Raspberry Pis to be used for contact tracing, particularly for COVID-19, through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) RSSI values. I developed an experiment involving plotting and analyzing the correlation of RSSI values at differing proximities of the Raspberry Pi beacons to determine the efficacy of this more cost-effective solution, and wrote a final research paper detailing my findings. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Columbia Engineering ### High School Diploma Shenendehowa Central School District ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emily-yin-69455820a --- Source: https://flows.cv/emilyyin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/emilyyin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10