# Yixin Zhang

> Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake

Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yixin

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2019 – Present

### Software Engineer Intern @ Leap.ai
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Implemented both back-end and front-end of Leap.ai JobBoard which displays a rich set of job descriptions and delivers clean and consistent UX to end users.
◦ Back-end involves implementing functionalities which parse millions of jobs (in HTML format) crawled from the internet, build ASTs for HTML pages, convert the ASTs to raw markdown data and response data to API calls in the format of JSON.
◦ Worked together with UX team on designing user-friendly UI and implemented front-end using React. 

• Maintained and improved internal ops system on a daily basis, including
◦ adding new features that provide better tooling for internal teams to inspect system logs, recent user activities, etc.
◦ optimizing page loading time by implementing asynchronous loading for heavy tables, improved loading time by 70%.
◦ collecting bug reports from internal teams and working end2end with bug reporters on fixing the issues.

### Research Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
• Analyzed risk and uncertainty affected behavioral binary choice data based on Cumulative Prospect Theory, using QTest, an advanced statistical modeling tool


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Chicago

### Bachelor's Degree in Economics
Sichuan University

### University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Master's Degree in Economics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yixin-zhang-5a2843b4

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Last updated: 2026-03-29