# Yingjie Shen

> MTS @ Microsoft AI | ex Verkada

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

Full-Stack Engineer focused on building modern security products—from configuration workflows to advanced analytics. At Verkada, I design and ship end-to-end features that transform complex computer-vision data into actionable insights through well-structured systems, APIs, and user-facing tools, driving real product and business impact.

## Work Experience
### Member of Technical Staff @ Microsoft AI
Jan 2026 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Mateo, California, United States
Launched Retail Analytics Dashboards, an interactive analytics tool for visualizing occupancy, queue, helix, sales conversion trends and camera insights.
https://www.verkada.com/blog/queue-trends-helix-dashboards/

Launched new AI-application feature: Camera Smart Lists — automatically surfaces “New People” and “Frequently Seen People” on selected cameras, reducing manual effort:
https://help.verkada.com/en/articles/12315319-camera-smart-lists

Launched Occupancy Trends Dashboard, an interactive analytics solution enabling real-time building usage insights: https://www.verkada.com/blog/new-occupancy-trends-dashboard/

### Software Engineer II @ Verkada
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Mateo, CA
Launched a end to end, streamlined alert-creation flow for faster, intuitive setup of camera analytics alerts: https://www.verkada.com/blog/new-alert-creation-flow/

Launched a new camera alert functionality enabling proactive detection of line-crossing, loitering, and person-of-interest events: https://www.verkada.com/blog/new-camera-alert-functionality/

PTZ Contextual Triggers — launched a new frontend experience enabling configuration of linked-camera triggers and automatic PTZ tracking.
https://help.verkada.com/en/articles/9211119-set-up-contextual-triggers-for-a-ptz-camera

### Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Mateo, California, United States
Launched enhanced search, video-quality, and management features across all cameras: https://www.verkada.com/blog/enhanced-search-video-quality-and-management-features/

Launched expanded Verkada API capabilities with new endpoints and refined permissioning for enhanced security and automation: https://www.verkada.com/blog/announcing-new-api-endpoints-and-permissioning-for-the-verkada-api/

Camera Notes — launched full-stack feature for adding contextual notes to camera feeds.
help.verkada.com/en/articles/7934235-camera-notes

### Software Engineer @ Laxis
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Launched the enhanced Laxis Insights Analysis, Google Meet Extension 2.0 with real-time transcription, in-meeting highlight & tag features, multi-language support and seamless web-app integration: https://www.laxis.com/blog/introducing-laxis-google-meet-extension-2-0/

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer and Information Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yingjie-shen-shen92

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Last updated: 2026-03-31