# Simon Yu

> Senior Software Engineer at Adobe

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/simonyu

Passionate web developer looking to build high-quality standards-compliant websites in a team environment.  Seeking to expand my knowledge of web technologies and challenge my problem solving and analytical skills.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Adobe
Jan 2021 – Present
● Ramped up in ReactJS within a month, working with an internal components team that built higher-order components from React Spectrum components.

### Software Engineer @ Adobe
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, CA
● Learned to use Angular with the NgRx framework for state management and the RxJS library for reactive programming to deprecate legacy PHP features.
● Collaborated with Product Managers, Designers, and Program Managers to deliver projects from start to finish.

### Web Engineer @ TubeMogul, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Emeryville, CA
● Ramped up in 3 weeks; getting to know the legacy PHP codebase under the Kohana framework
● Used a LAMP stack to develop UI features for the Tubemogul platform.
● Wrote PHP unit tests to increase the non-existent code coverage.
● Worked with Senior Engineers to continually refactor the legacy PHP codebase by using OOP principles and modularize code.
● Learned AngularJS to develop front-end features through RESTful services.  Covered angular code with Jasmine unit tests.

### Mobile Web Developer @ Moovweb
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area, CA
● Learned Tritium and Sass in 1 month to acquire the skill needed to transform full websites into mobile and tablet versions.
● Improved skills in website user-experience and event-handling with more advanced Javascript.
● Improved skills in debugging front-end-related issues by performing live site maintenance.
● Learned additional techniques for Git, such as merging, branching, stashing, and fixing merge conflicts.
● Decreased development time significantly by transitioning one of our projects from using Compass as a Sass compiler to using Spracker.
● Worked in a team of other Mobile Web Developers, Project Manager, Account Manager, and Quality Assurance Engineer.
● Traveled with a Project Manager and one other Mobile Web Developer to train our clients’ developers how to use the Moovweb technology, including Tritium, Sass, Javascript, project structure, and mobile performance.

### Web Developer @ David Geffen School of Medicine
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | University of California, Los Angeles
● Learned PHP, MySQL, and JQuery to create a web application in 1 month that allowed potential tutors to sign up as a teacher for the Learning Resource Center. Displayed the stored records to coordinators in an organized manner.

  http://apps.medsch.ucla.edu/teachingopps

● Learned to use Git to track updates and version control, AJAX to update contents on a web page without refreshing, objected-oriented PHP, and more complicated SQL queries in the assistance of developing a web learning application for 4 months that targeted UCLA medical students to help master learning materials.

  http://dev.medsch.ucla.edu/palm/game

● Learned responsive design principles to allow software usage both on the desktop and iPad.
● Mainly worked and learned independently with some guidance by supervisor.

### Webmaster for BreakLA/Battle Royale Website @ Omega Sigma Tau
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
● Learned to hand-code HTML/CSS and built a website in 4 months.
● Website displayed contents about a break-dance/hip hop dance competition hosted at UCLA.

http://www.breakla.com

### Institutional Archives Intern @ J. Paul Getty Trust
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
● Performed audio editing on archived raw scholar recordings and constructed the appropriate Dublin Core metadata accompanying each set.
● Learned to use necessary softwares including Sony’s Soundforge Pro and Archivists’ Toolkit.
● Identified new ways to make audio editing more efficient and took the initiative to update the procedures manual. Ex) Instead of using default settings for volume control, I manipulated the amount of decibels needed to be increased or decreased.


## Education
### Psychology in Cognitive Science Minor, Specialization in Computerization
UCLA
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yusimon127

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Last updated: 2026-03-22