Erik Yang
Software Engineer at Yelp
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolErik Yang is a San Francisco-based software engineer with about a decade of experience building production-grade web and backend systems. He’s been a Software Engineer at Yelp since 2019, delivering scalable services and collaborating across cross-functional teams. His background includes software engineering internships at Tesla and Academia Sinica, and he once led SEEDJAM as Lead Event Director, showcasing a rare mix of hands-on engineering and event leadership. He earned a BS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, grounding his work in strong fundamentals. Outside of work, he maintains erikyangs.com and erikyangs on GitHub, reflecting a commitment to open-source and side projects. Built on a foundation of industry practice, academic rigor, and community involvement, Erik brings practical problem-solving and a curious, collaborative mindset to every project.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (12)
lucene10
solr10
protobuf9
grpc9
high-performance9
emoticons8
keyword8
emoji8
apache8
cracking4
python34
python3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
erikyangs/foodwhim
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
erikyangs/erikyangs.github.io
Sep 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:164 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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