# Evan Shi

> Software Engineer @ Netflix

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/evanshi

Engineer and leader with pragmatic focus on delivering the intersection between business objectives and delightful user experiences.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2026 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Ensemble Technologies
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Implemented declarative UI language framework with React and jotai, published on npm (https://github.com/EnsembleUI/ensemble-react/). Created CLI tooling for project management. Leveraged LLM workflows for end-user productivity.

### Software Engineer @ Verishop
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Full-stack engineer building next-generation e-commerce experiences for customers and emerging brands. Designed and deployed a scalable marketplace integration platform serving thousands of brands and users. Co-authored responsive shopping UX on Snap's Mini platform

### Principal Software Engineer @ Workday
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
I led a team of 20 engineers, spearheaded technical vision, and drove innovation in user experience for open and proprietary developer tools for Workday Extend customers.

React, Typescript, node.js, Spring, Kotlin, AWS, Terraform, REST, OAuth, JWT

### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Workday
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Led development of App Creator from design to launch. App Creator was featured at Workday Rising 2018 as a drag and drop web page authoring tool for business administrators to connect APIs and workflows to extend Workday.

React, Typescript, Scala, Play!, docker, kubernetes, Selenium

### Software Development Engineer @ Workday
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Founding member of Visual Presentation Services team, Workday's external facing UI platform. Outstanding Contributor Award for key contributions in quickly laying down the framework that allowed Workday Recruiting to launch external websites in three months.

Scala, Play!, Mockito, Functional Programing

### Associate Software Development Engineer @ Workday
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Innovated hybrid HTML/SVG org chart visualization by superimposing GWT components over augmented d3.js tree algorithm and canvas

HTML, CSS, Javascript, SVG, d3.js, GWT, MVC

### Associate Software Engineer Intern @ Workday
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Pleasanton, CA
Designed and built with d3.js a JSON visualizer for large documents representing Workday UI with search and drilldown capabilities to assist with internal debugging.

### Associate Software Engineer Intern @ Workday
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Pleasanton, CA
Created rich text editor widget for Workday's (then) new HTML5 client with CKEditor after evaluating and presenting on trade-offs with other frameworks to technical leadership. Ensured stable production migration from legacy Flash editor by implementing a performant on-the-fly transformer between legacy rich text data format and HTML5 standard.

### Research Assistant in Department of Urology @ UCSF
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Ruggero Lab
•	Investigated the importance of the 5' UTR in transcription for 4 genes downstream of the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway found elevated in metastasized PC3 cells.

### Undergraduate Researcher: Department of Bioengineering @ UCLA
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Grundfest Lab
•	Programmed MATLAB to process and analyze oscilloscope data characterizing pulsed LEDs with potential to penetrate bacterial biofilms


## Education
### B.S. in Computer Science
UCLA
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evan-shi
- Website: https://shiyifeng.dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-22