# Isabelle Y.

> Backend Engineer @ Drivemode | Ex-Google

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Drivemode
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Benchling
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Nest

* Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams to design API services and SQL schema to support consolidated device model representation
* Contributed to design of data sync pipeline between cloud and local home networks to enable faster and more secure executions and automations

### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Search: Content Creation - Tech lead of platform team (APIs + storage)

* Drove all technical and architectural direction; designed and either built or guided to completion the APIs, servers, and storage that all projects depended on
* Built and maintained 3 microservices using service mesh architecture, Java, Typescript, Angular, and SQL
* Architected the SQL storage schema to support product expansion and to scale for more users, which laid the groundwork for 10+ products (e.g. Google Bulletin, Search People cards), including those outside of Search
* Defined API design guidelines for the team to streamline future projects and simplify maintainability
* Collaborated with product managers to turn abstract product goals into concrete launchable targets
* Implemented automated abuse protection by coordinating with product and trust & safety teams in order to scale user base to all Google users
* Consulted with privacy and legal teams to ensure safe management of user data and communication

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020
Search: Voting

Led project to build an internal admin tool for setting up the competition show voting widgets that surface in the search results page

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014
Google Fiber - Backend lead for the service signup and installation scheduling platform

### Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
NX-OS Software

### Software Engineer @ SkyGrid, Inc
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
User management application
- Created UI for user database utilizing Pylons and SQLAlchemy
- Functions include searching, editing, adding, and exporting accounts
- Readapted application's requests to add user to accommodate other methods of adding users

User activity reports
- Programmed scripts to parse logs of user activity to produce daily, cumulative, and individual reports
- Capable of producing more targeted reports by filtering according to company, user type, etc.

DataService UI
- Created UI for internal data file system utilizing Pylons
- Functions include searching, editing, and adding entries

Widgets
- Engineered several specialized widgets for several companies
- Parsed feeds for the backend of widgets in JavaScript
- Created visual front-end of widgets with HTML and CSS

### Undergraduate Researcher @ URAP Research: Statnews
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
- Analyze online news items using modern machine learning and statistical algorithms
- Quantify the "image" of certain concepts or people in the news via a word correlation analysis

### Software Engineering Intern @ Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
- Designed and created a text-mining application to parse through medical texts
- Application then could create an index for the text based on user-inputted keyword


## Education
### University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/isabelleyen

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Last updated: 2026-04-01