# Yen-Ju Pon

> SWE @ Grammarly

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

I am dedicated to software engineering with two years of experience in data engineering and back-end development.

I am pursuing a master's degree in Information Technology Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University to further advance my career as a software developer. I possess expertise in several areas:
• Programming in Python, C/C++, Java
• Data Engineering with Apache Spark in Python and Scala
• Back-end Development in Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript

As I seek full-time software engineer opportunities in the United States, I am eager to establish new professional connections. Let's connect and explore the possibilities!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Grammarly
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ Grammarly
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Updated Databricks Workflows in Scala to aggregate data for 50,000+ business organizations
• Handled a high-traffic production system migration of Workflows that impacted 2.5M+ users
• Led discussions with manager, tech lead, and PM to determine launch plan
• Conducted rigorous testing and data profiling and executed dark testing before deployment
• Successfully launched the analytics dashboard page with new data to production using Spring Boot, Java, and TypeScript
• Contributed to the team's success by volunteering in doc bash, bug bash, and composing wiki pages for new Workflows

### Data Engineer @ Cathay Financial Holdings Co., Ltd.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Taipei City, Taiwan
• Engineered an auto machine learning tool on Spark in Python with detailed documents adopted by 3
financial group subsidiaries and contributed to 5 analysis projects.
•  Improved efficiency of auto machine learning tool by 15% since joined product by debugging,
optimizing ML pipeline, and applying several data preprocessing methods.
•  Orchestrated a development team of 3 with members of PM and QA using Agile SDLC in Jira.
•  Cultivated a culture of sharing in-group and cross-group, including organizing 2 study groups,
hosting 2 workshops, and writing several technical articles in company’s newsletters.

### Web Development Intern @ LnData, INC.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Taipei City, Taiwan
• Collaborated with a team of 3 to develop a website for 10+ enterprise customers, including querying data from MongoDB, processing data with PHP, Python, and arranging visualized data on the website utilizing HTML and JavaScript. 
• Organized a data workflow to improve overall accuracy in tagging prediction by 10% by web crawling, and data cleaning to ML model training.


## Education
### Master's degree in Master of Information Technology Strategy
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electrical Engineering
National Taiwan University

### Undergraduate summer session in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yen-ju-pon

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Last updated: 2026-03-29