# Helen Yan > Backend Software Engineer at Wealthfront Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/helenyan ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Wealthfront Jan 2024 – Present ### Backend Software Engineer @ Wealthfront Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Senior Consultant @ Voyager Consulting Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | UC Berkeley - Provide strategy consulting to clients and perform data processing and analysis, market research, and competitor analysis. - Consulted for Levis on two data-oriented projects: First, examining Amazon's Forecasting metrics and predictions compared to actual sales and other possible prediction metrics to determine usefulness and Secondly, determining a statistically significant relationship between product assortment level and sales. Produced and presented a midpoint and final report to various team leads in the company. - Tech Manager: In charge of updating the group's website using HTML and CSS to give it a more interactive and user friendly feel - worked with Tiffany & Co.: used Python and R to analyze 4 years of sales data and draw conclusions about their Chinese clients in the US. Organized a final report to be used by their executive team as well as store managers in new client targeting campaigns. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Pantheon Platform Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Used PHP, Go, and Python on the Core Engineering team to build and deploy various software products - Contributed to company-wide projects to expand services to international regions, upgrade caching architecture, and improve networking services (DNS record recommendations, mandatory HSTS headers) - Did open source work with Drush/ Drupal projects to streamline and test their integration into Pantheon ### President @ UC Berkeley ChemE Car Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California - Chem E Car is a student run research and competition team that aims to build a model car each year to compete in AIChE's conference each year. - As president of the club, I helped reorganize the executive team structure into internally and externally focused branches to accommodate for our rapidly growing club size. I also lead the internal and external branches to guide them in setting ambitious goals and taking the steps to reach them. This included taking the lead in organizing recruitment, internal events, and UC Berkeley's presence at Western Regional Conference. I was also the primary link between school administration and the team to relay information about our needs and progress, and solving issues such as lab space and resource allocation. My executive duties also included managing a portion of the teams and regularly communicate with and guiding team leads. - Previously, as the treasurer, I have also managed our multi-thousand dollar budget, applied for sponsorships, made purchases, and kept track of reimbursements. ### Front-End Engineering Intern @ Teapplix Inc Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA - Used React to build from scratch a products page for Teapplix clients to use to efficiently display and manage their products. Part of a larger effort to increase client tools and migrate Teapplix's front end to React. ### Undergraduate Researcher: Katz Lab @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA - Use Gaussian program to compute Density Functional Theory calculations for various molecules and structures to be able to compare transition state energies. A computational chemistry approach to optimizing reactions. ### Undergraduate Researcher @ Tsing Hua University Chemical Engineering Department Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Beijing City, China -Conducted experiments to synthesize micro-emulsions and janus particles using micro-channels. -Used Scanning Electron Microscope to take pictures of and characterize the final product. -Communicated with the team in both Chinese (Mandarin) and English. ### Research Intern @ Stanford University Department of Chemical Engineering Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 -Conducted experiments in heterogeneous catalysis to contribute to research comparing different nanoparticle catalyst + support combinations for the purpose of converting methane gas to methanol for environmental and clean energy reasons. -Synthesized and compared 10 different metal-Alumina supports for the conversion of methane gas -Frequently used a reactor and gas chromatography system, roto-vap, and UV/VIS to perform experiments ### Co Director @ Palo Alto Speech and Debate Camp Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 -a summer camp for middle and high schooler -The purpose is to spread the crucial skills of public speaking and also to raise funds for the team -organized 30+ volunteer instructors and 150 students/campers per summer -dealt with the finances, parents, advertising, and communicating and compromising with school administration for space and materials ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### High School Palo Alto High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/helen-yan-3a4299101 --- Source: https://flows.cv/helenyan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/helenyan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01