# Joy Yu

> Software Engineer at Front

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joyyu

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Front
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Developers platform team (front-end focused)

### Software Engineer II @ Front
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Calendar and Growth teams

### Software Engineer @ Front
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Core product experience team

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachussetts
•	Developed in Swift the iOS version of MIT App Inventor—an app that empowers non-programmers to build their own apps—in a team of three students.
•	Implemented ImagePicker, Canvas, and ImageSprite features, some of the most used blocks on the pre-existing Android app (>100K weekly active users). Designed custom drag recognizers for user interaction.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Designed and implemented in C++ the most requested Chrome table feature that had been an unsolved bug for 8 years—functionality for the CSS Visibility: collapse property.
•	Navigated and refactored an old codebase with minimal pre-existing documentation. 
•	Contributed 24 tests to the open source Web Platform Tests that most browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc.) use as standard for browser development.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California
• Designed and created visualizations in Angular2/Dart for the AdWords campaign management Google Maps display panel, allowing advertisers to clearly view the geographic performance of their campaigns.
• Implemented and optimized clustering algorithms and refactored models to maximize the amount of information displayed on the map while prioritizing user experience.
• Processed data from different technology stacks and created new features such as interactive information boxes.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lucid Software Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | South Jordan, Utah
Used Javascript and the Office API to create a PowerPoint add-in for Lucidchart, an online tool to create flowcharts and diagrams. It is currently published in the Office store, with a rating of 4/5 stars.


## Education
### Masters of Engineering in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### FTTA

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Shanghai American School


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/joyyu
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joyyu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-31