# yingfan chen

> Software engineer @ Applovin

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

Computer Science degree from Rice University. Software Engineer @ Applovin. Ex software engineer @ Alibaba. 3 years of professional experience. 1 full year of frontend and full stack experience. 2 years of experience in Rust infrastructure backend, serverside development, microservice, performant data fetcher, Machine Learning infrastructure, training, and inferencing.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ AppLovin
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ AppLovin
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Hive
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Distributed model training, inferencing, backend infrastructure, fullstack development
Rust, Python, React

### Co Head @ Department of Statistics and Analytics, Rice University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Houston, TX
⚫ Automates data collection using Python and interacting with Google API for all 30+ games in season
⚫ Provides advanced scouting report, digging through film and performing statistical analysis of upcoming opponents. Have produced 30+ reports personally and 500+ as a team.

### Full Stack developer @ 阿里巴巴
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
1. Develops an access control management component for a data service platform with React and JavaScript 
2. Kickstarts the intelligent analysis feature of a new BI data visualization product. Implements the backend including data cleansing, preparation, modeling using Python with Numpy, Pandas, SciPy and Sklearn. Develops a demo with React and Typescript to showcase the ability.

### Frontend Engineer @ Reach
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
1. Independent development of the core features of asset creation and management on a blockchain platform 
2. Uses React with Typescript and Redux for state management. Heavily uses HTML5 Canvas API for optimized performance over pure DOM development. Uses SCSS preprocessor. 
3. Develops the company website using ThreeJS and creates an interactive 3D globe

### Frontend Web Developer @ Perspectivar Technology International
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | 中国 广东省 深圳
1. Develops a growing subscription-based web app serving 1000+ users. Implements features (payment, folder management, rich editor, survey…) and debugs potential issues. 
2. Uses Vue with Typescript and Vuex for state management. Optimize SEO for the index page with Nuxt and deploys the index page with Docker. Uses SCSS preprocessor.

### Full Stack Web Developer @ Rice Astroparticles Lab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
⚫ Implements, tests, and deploys a web app on my own for waveform data visualization of dark matter XENON experiment for the XENONnT organization of 100+ members.
⚫ Uses React, Express, Mongo DB, and Flask for implementation, deploys with Docker on Azure cloud service
⚫ Realizes interactive data visualization with Bokeh server

### Data Analyst @ Rice University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Houston, TX
⚫ Automates data extraction from surveys using Python scripts interacting with Qualtrics API
⚫ Visualize textual data with word cloud technique by using Python and Tableau
⚫ Analyze and visualize 10000+ rows of messy data and publish Tableau dashboard for internal use

### Intern @ Rice University Athletics Ticket Sales
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Houston TX
1. Research to identify and make calls to target groups while using Excel to track customer status
2. Provide customer service and coordinate groups like anthem group and fan tunnel on game day


## Education
### Undergraduate in Sport Management
Rice University

### High School Diploma
Guangdong Country Garden School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yingfan-chen-gfsd

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Source: https://flows.cv/yingfan
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yingfan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11