# Vivian Yu

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Pump.co
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Built and extended backend services for AWS cost analysis and infrastructure optimization using Python, FastAPI, and Boto3, which reduced the time needed for weekly cloud-spend reviews.
- Designed scalable Python APIs integrating with AWS services and cloud usage datasets on Clickhouse.
- Collaborated with founders and the engineering team using Linear to define the technical roadmap and iterate on product features, accelerating feature delivery by two weeks per sprint.
- Helped balance rapid experimentation with system reliability in a fast-paced, early growth-stage environment.

### Backend Software Engineer @ Clerkie
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
- First Backend Hire & Early Employee #7:  Helped scale backend infrastructure from the ground up, supporting both B2B and B2C products.
- Clerkie Fiber (B2B Platform):
   - CRM - part of a GTM team building 0 < 1. 
   - IMS - part of the enterprise tooling. 
- Consumer app: Design, implement, and maintain core infrastructure throughout the entire Clerkie app, creating new features such as payment and creditor dashboards, news feed pages, internal negotiation automation, and subscription programs
 - Workflows: Implemented automated workflows
- Backlog: Provide backend expertise to facilitate feature development and improve core platform reliability, performance, and scalability
- Expand the internal ecosystem of metrics and alerts to improve debt negotiator and user experience
- Work with frontend engineers and business team members at Clerkie to provide a comprehensive, intuitive, and reliable user experience

### Software Engineer Intern @ Clerkie
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Implemented full-stack features in the Clerkie app, including menu navigation, info pages, and budgeting flows.
- Developed backend endpoints and integrated custom frontend components.
- Converted to a full-time role based on initiative, code quality, and impact.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Arborsense Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
•	Implement Python scripts to automate graphical analysis to improve graphene-based sensor technology for sensitive monitoring of biochemical markers 
•	Develop programs to correct voltage current change data from correction factors like blood alcohol content and temperature and perform baseline correction

### Research Assistant @ University of Michigan
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, MI
• Work as a research assistant in the Department of Internal Medicine as a student in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at the University of Michigan
• Develop an empirical assessment in the factors of the changes in spatial proximity of family members
• Compile literature from other studies into Zotero
• Collect and analyze health data of different demographic factors using Excel, STATA and ArcGIS

### Intern @ University of Rochester Medical Center
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Rochester, New York Area
• Worked in the Genetics Research Lab and gained valuable hands-on experience on research studies focusing on neural development and degeneration
• Established behavioral tests and performed baseline analysis using control animals
• Dissected mouse embryos and performed gene expression analysis

### Teaching Assistant @ Chinese School of Rochester
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Rochester, New York Area
•	Engaged students in conversations and reading in Chinese as a second language
•	Tutored students on assignments and homework


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Michigan
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Pittsford-Mendon High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vivian-yu-51a0aa137

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Last updated: 2026-03-23