Yin Mei

Software Engineer

Build Modern Full Stack Applications | Develop Solutions for Cross-Functional Teams

Fullstack Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience in product engineering roles, experienced in working with owning a product from design, development, testing and maintenance. Proficient with React, and Typescript frameworks most enthusiastically driven by enabling joyful user experiences. Adept at collaborating with multiple stakeholders in cross-functional teams to lead on and deliver quality software products with 8+ experience in the technical industry in roles across the business stack.

Technical Skills

Professional Experience

Independent Software Developer, Remote 2024 - Present

Deliver technical product consulting, software and web development work for various clients in the arts, business, non-profit and impact world.

Build prototypes with NextJS, Express, Prisma, Typescript & MySQL hosted on Vercel and S3 or Digital Ocean
Update VueJS web and mobile application for ongoing client work for Big House Studio.
Develop Webflow Site with Pipedream automations for Marketplace Of The Future, a Climate Week event in NYC.
Design & build web solutions with e-commerce integrations for local brick-and-mortar businesses.
Design and develop workflow automation solutions and web applications leveraging existing tools and APIs for food delivery systems, community web applications for community fridges, and community rideshare solutions.

NEXTERA MOBILITY, Remote 2022 - 2024

Software Engineer II

Owned, developed and deployed client-facing calculations dashboard application built in Python with Flask with a React front-end on Google Cloud via Kubernetes, improving data analysis efficiency and calculation integrity while updating frontend user workflow experience for clients to run future fleet cost projections.

Developed and tested data-centered calculations in Python for incentives processing.
Managed and developed new features for calculations dashboard in React and ES6, updating Flask API as needed.
Advised designer and product manager to deliver seamless production-live roadmap for product evolution.

PER SCHOLAS CUSTOMIZED TRAINING, Remote 2019 - 2022

Director, Strategy and Curriculum Design

Launched curriculum development lifecycle for 16+ curriculums across 24 cohorts over 17+ national sites in collaboration with recruitment, marketing, and other departments.

Developed scalable curriculum expansion with industry SMEs, establishing consistent and repeatable processes to meet evolving industry needs across 5 domains (IT, Data Engineering, Software Development, Cloud Engineering, Cybersecurity).

Director, Technical Instruction and Curriculum

Developed curriculum design and development process, hired instructional talent, met with national expansion partners for business development meetings with 70% travel.

Hired, trained and promoted internal talent utilizing scalable curriculum design and development systems.

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THINK!CHINATOWN, New York, NY 2018 - 2019

Technical Product Consultant

Owned product from start to finish as product manager and software developer for HowToChinatown. NY with partnership with Postlight agency on a short timeline.

Created product roadmap for HowToChinatown.NYC for Think!Chinatown, defining final product.
Developed responsive front-end, copy / content, deploying working beta in 3-day timeline based on Django web application on a Digital Ocean instance with Docker using Lets Encrypt with another technical contributor.

NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, New York, NY 2017 - 2018

Curriculum Specialist / CS4CS Technical Instructor / TA, Intro to Python Programming CS-UY 1114

Worked part time during the last semester of obtaining a MS in Cybersecurity.

Developed and graded hands-on cybersecurity assignments for NYU Law students with Wireshark, supplementing weekly discussion topics for NYU Cybersecurity and Law seminar.
Designed curriculum materials and lead instruction for CS4CS and CS-UY 1114.

COTA, New York, NY 2015 - 2017

Software Engineer

Developed internal web applications with dynamic forms on EmberJS and AngularJS frameworks.

Regularly delivered new business features to-spec and on-time, designing improvements with product.
Generated data migration scripts to reflect altered JSON schemas on a CouchDB integration.
Designed and created an importable Google analytics module for user data tracking.

Education and Certifications

Master of Science (MS), Cybersecurity, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYC, NY

NYU CS Bridge Graduate | NYU Cyber Scholar

Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Web Development Immersive Digital Marketing, General Assembly, NYC, NY

Business French Certiﬁcation B2, Université de Bordeaux II, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, FR

Languages

English | Mandarin | French

Community Roles

Organizing Team, Marketplace of the Future, New York City, NY, 2024

Manage website and digital assets for the September 2024 Climate Week event.

Membership Chair, Asian American Journalists Association, New York, NY, 2013 - 2014

Acted as community organizer and cross organization liaison for the AAJA community in the Greater New York City Area, organized the AAJA Social Media Workshop and AAJA New York Trivia Bowl from 2013 to 2014.

Founding Member, Beijing Commons, Beijing, CN, 2012 - 2013

Lead Organizer of BarCamp Beijing Aug 2012, Oct 2012, Jan 2013, Apr 2013, TEDxBeijing 2012-2013.

Founding Member, Alumni Networks of Beijing, Beijing, CN, 2010 - 2013

Organizer of 80+ community of alumni networks in Beijing, led the organization of the All Alumni Ball in May 2012 and June 2013 (300+, 600+ attendees respectively) with diplomatic and industry sponsors.