# Kenson Y.

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Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kensony

Generalist, full-stack software engineering leader with expertise in iOS, Javascript, and frontend web development. Passionate about building consumer products that are both functional and delightful. 

I love collaborating closely with designers and PMs on designing amazing user experiences. I’ve been at large companies like Google and startups like Polyvore, growing from 5 to 125, and enjoy building teams within both. Looking for a role that lets me ship exciting products while leading and scaling a team.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Sequoia Capital
Jan 2019 – Present

### Engineering Manager @ WhatsApp
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### Director of Engineering @ Yttro Mobile
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View
YTTRO Mobile: An exciting new way to discover mobile games

Web (http://h5.yttromobile.com)
• Architected and developed single-page HTML5 app of the YTTRO platform
• Key technologies used: Canvas, React, Velocity.js, AppCache, touch gestures, CSS3 and flex-box
• Collaborated with the Alibaba UC Browser team to improve performance and developer feature support. UC Browser is China’s 2nd largest web browser.

Promoted Apps
• Established and developed YTTRO app promotion program
• Collaborated with external partners on technical integration, tracking, business goals

### Principal Software Engineer @ Polyvore (acquired by Yahoo in 2015)
Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View CA
As the first engineer at a startup with ~20M monthly uniques, I've had the opportunity to design and develop many key pieces of infrastructure and UI.

iOS (http://www.polyvore.com/iOS)
• Founding member of 2 engineers and a designer. Architected and developed server and client.
• Consistent 5-star rating, 1M downloads in 6 months. Webby award in 2014.
• Grew to a team of 6 engineers, 2 designers, external testers.

Web
• Responsible for end-to-end design and implementation of features, from SQL to client and common client-server APIs
• Responsible for the Polyvore Editor: a 100% JS image-collaging tool that is the core of the user experience
• Designed and built Photoshop-like features in the Editor, including rotation, scaling, selection, text, undo
• Developed and evangelized engineering best practices
• Implementation highlights: UI guidelines + component framework, A/B testing framework, code style guide, page speed tools, JS and perl perf tools, infinite scroll, autocomplete
• Lead frontend development team of 3.

Data Store / Data Processing
• Developed  data import pipeline: 200+ distributed crawlers, 300+ feeds with automated quality monitors
• Implemented image processing pipeline for image clustering (de-duping), image composition 
• SQL schema design and query optimization

Managing
• 100s of interviews, recruiting functions, tech talks. 
• Managed 7 engineers across iOS and Android teams.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Mountain View CA
Editing Places - UGC map corrections
• Part of initial team, establishing project scope and design through to launch and subsequent iterations.
• Main responsibilities: end-to-end serving pipeline from NoSQL database (BigTable) to web client, risky account detection, dashboard and tools to monitor KPIs and spam metrics.

Maps Geocoder
• Fuzzy, unstructured search for Google Maps. 
• Main contributions: query parsing, scoring and ranking, internationalization, address formatting, performance tuning

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Mountain View CA
Google Earth
MSVC++, COM, DirectX8, multithreading

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Mountain View CA
Google Enterprise
C++, Java, XML

### Software Developer, Intern @ IBM Canada Ltd.
Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 | Markham ON, Canada
Java, Eclipse

### Software Developer, Intern @ Hydro One
Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 | Etobicoke ON, Canada
Inventory and device management app.
Java Servlets, JDBC, XML, XSLT, HTML, JS


## Education
### B.Math in Honours Computer Science
University of Waterloo


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11