# Heather Yuan

> Software Engineer @ Netflix | CS Alum @ UC Berkeley

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

I'm a recent graduate from UC Berkeley where I studied Computer Science. Currently, I'm based in the SF Bay Area and software engineering for Netflix on the Games Developer Platform - Games Systems team.

I'm passionate about growth through challenge and learning, and am working on expanding myself creatively. Some of my favorite things are getting my body moving through dance or running, trying out a new restaurant, or writing about my newest philosophical hyperfixation on my personal blog.

Please feel free to reach out! Always happy to chat :)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2024 – Present
Games Developer Platform – Games Systems 

• building the backend services that power the core player experience features on Netflix Games platform

### Tech Lead/Software Developer @ AFX
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
•	Developed React and Flask webapp that manages PostgreSQL database of 1k+ dancers with bulk data ingestion, user authentication, and team switching through request forms, admin review/approval, email automation, and database updates
•	Expanded webapp functionality with algorithmic team matching, financial management, and dancer preference support
•	Led team of 7 developers through project and design scoping, task and deadline management, and mentorship

### Software Engineer Intern @ Grafana Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
•	Decreased query latency by 92% by persisting index samples to disk with Protocol Buffers to prevent reconstruction
•	Reduced disk thrashing and improved long-term query latency by 80% with config to limit concurrent disk accesses
•	Participated in company hackathon to generate and explain custom PromQL queries from user-inputted natural language prompts from OpenAI LLM API and built Flask webapp in Docker
•	Rolled out features to production Kubernetes clusters with evidence-backed testing in development and operations clusters

### Project Manager @ Net Impact Berkeley
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Spring 2023 // Project Manager
• Leading a team of 5 consultants to develop and implement a reimagined social impact initiative for a leading energy foods brand

### Senior Associate Consultant @ Net Impact Berkeley
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Fall 2022 // Senior Associate Consultant
• Researched and analyzed international macroeconomic and market trends for 9+ crops and developed a financial leading model for a renewable energy development company to determine the most equitable farmer lease rates given the political and economic climate

### Associate Consultant @ Net Impact Berkeley
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States
Premier undergraduate consulting group providing strategy and social impact consulting to businesses

Spring 2022 // Associate Consultant
•	Conducted 6+ customer insight interviews and researched 10+ competitors to evaluate market landscape and identify customer groups for an international girl’s education non-profit organization

Fall 2021 // Associate Consultant
•	Researched 10+ leading ESG rating agencies and performed case studies on 5+ competitors to benchmark ESG performance and identify areas of improvement for an international sustainable apparel company's pre-IPO strategy

### Software Engineer Intern @ Aperture Finance
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
• Implemented and deployed end-to-end Ethereum smart contract that optimizes lending strategy yield by 150%+ by pulling and averaging supply rate data across a user-given time period for multiple tokens and markets
• Developed React web page that displays, sorts, and searches through user data on yield-farming positions
• Refactored entire React webapp codebase into Typescript to resolve and prevent 100+ typing errors

### Communications Intern @ Gracenote
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Academic Intern @ CS10
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
•	Assisted weekly labs to help students with hands-on programming problems through one-on-one guidance
•	Taught conceptual computing content and helped students debug their code
•	Completed lab assignments and projects to acquaint myself with the material before teaching it to students


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### High School Diploma
Laurel Springs School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/heatheryuan
- Portfolio: https://heatheryuan.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29