# Yousef Issa

> Software Engineer at Plaid | Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Liabilities, Investments, and Transactions team

### Software Engineer @ Zumper
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
As a software engineer at Zumper, a leading online rental marketplace, I had a proven track record of delivering high-quality, efficient solutions. My expertise included optimizing system performance, enhancing developer velocity, and increasing customer engagement.

• Redesigned microservices architecture, reducing resource consumption by 90% while maintaining single-digit latency; saved tens of thousands of dollars per month on AWS resources.

• Successfully refactored a monolithic codebase into a monorepo, modularizing code into libraries and services, and upgrading from Python 2 to Python 3.

• Engineered a high-performance email delivery service, efficiently delivering millions of emails per month.

• Led data engineering initiatives, including deploying the Airflow 2 upgrade and building an A/B testing engine that increased email click rates.

• Developed reusable microservice and library templates using CookieCutter, Docker, Terraform, commit hooks, and Nomad, significantly boosting developer productivity.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Zumper
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed and deployed Zumper's first programmatic ad product, enabling millions of landlords to effortlessly promote their rental listings; this became a primary source of recurring revenue. Technologies used: Django, Apache Thrift, Postgres, and columnar formatting.

• Boosted website search inventory by creating APIs to integrate external feeds, adding hundreds of thousands of new property listings to the platform.

• Utilized Python, JavaScript, Django, React, and Postgres to drive improvements and enhance the platform's functionality.

### Engineering Fellow - 2018 @ Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Fellowship Program offers top U.S. college and graduate students a chance to work inside innovative Silicon Valley startups. KPCB Engineering Fellows join our portfolio companies, where they develop their technical skills and are mentored by an executive within the company.

### Python Developer @ Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Evanston, Illinois
• Worked on recreating the Netlogo web application, a popular open source modeling tool, utilizing Python, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS stack. 
• Implemented new simulation behaviors while improving the GUI and Web code editor to provide advanced IDE features.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Fulcrum Global Technologies Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area
• Acted as product manager to design and pitch a message aggregation platform using natural language processing.
• Led the backend development utilizing NodeJS, Mongo, Socket.IO to read messages from messaging clients and send to the server.
• Created an Android app to add SMS functionality to the main client.
• Handled message encryption and storage on the client and server side.

### Lab Technician @ McCormick IT
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Evanston, Illinois
• Managed Northwestern University McCormick engineering school computer labs and engaged in software installation, computer maintenance, and scripting.
• Provided software and hardware support for McCormick administration offices and other faculty and students.

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Northwestern University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
• Gained experience assisting students with programming fundamentals in a Python based class.
• Lectured, graded exams, and held office hours to ensure students understood the course concepts.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Northwestern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yousefissa
- GitHub: https://GitHub.com/yousefissa
- Portfolio: https://yousefissa.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29