Extensive experience developing highly scalable web applications from back end to front end with a penchant for designing fast, simple, and intuitive interfaces.
Senior Product Manager @ • Leading product development for jobs coverage
• Helped staff up technical team to accelerate jobs aggregation
• Defined and built out reporting metrics and benchmarking to evaluate overall coverage
• Built tools to identify areas of opportunity for jobs coverage
• Drove improvements of job integration workflow, including tracking, alerting, and defect resolution From July 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) Founder @ • Designed and developed an online polling site from scratch using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) technologies. Launched in April 2007.
• Used AJAX to make voting and commenting more efficient and dynamic. Graceful degradation allows voting and commenting to still work with Javascript disabled.
• Created a Javascript widget to allow users to add polls to their own websites and blogs. The widget lets readers of those sites to view the poll, vote, and survey the results without ever leaving the user’s site. It also inherits the formatting and styling of the html element it is placed in, to automatically blend in to the user’s site.
• Created an OpenSocial polling application for the Glam Developer Network.
• The Twiigs polling widget has been used by prominent sites such as washingtonpost.com, evite.com, gofugyourself.com, and britneyspears.com. From September 2006 to March 2015 (8 years 7 months) Product Manager @ • Drove development of Simply Hired’s next generation Advertising System, providing both design and technical specifications.
• Instituted changes in Simply Hired's advertising algorithms and applications, significantly increasing monetization capacities.
• Led product development of the company’s internal data reporting tool.
• Led product improvements over various pieces of the company’s core advertising platform, including enhancements to click fraud detection, auction algorithm, credit card processing, data processing, and system monitoring. Successfully retired the company’s Sponsored Links product to meet company reprioritization.
• Steered development of the company’s automated ROI based SEM bidding system.
• Provided technical, data, and analytic support to Finance, Sales, Publisher, Small Business, and Metrics teams. Provided product insight, technical information, and data analysis as part of the company’s budget utilization research efforts.
• Acted as company liaison for yearly audit of Simply Hired’s Advertising System. From January 2011 to January 2013 (2 years 1 month) Lead Software Engineer @ • Led software development of Simply Hired's Advertising System. Improved performance of many key processes to increase load capacity of the system. Drove development of new UI. Led porting of back end processes and API functionality from PHP to Python. Managed day to day operations of web hosts, cron hosts, and databases.
• Led development of high performance, distributed metric system for aggregating and measuring configurable sets of data points using Python and MySQL.
• Helped implement Simply Hired's Facebook Connect feature: extending the Javascript libraries to cache and retrieve user data, and developed API failover mechanisms.
• Worked on various sections of the Simply Hired site using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JS, including the job permalink, job trends, salary, local portal, and company pages. From July 2007 to December 2010 (3 years 6 months) Software Engineer @ • Helped migrate Yahoo! Real Estate property to PHP.
• Worked on development of the Real Estate redesign, including the homepage, research and finance sections, and integration with Yahoo! Answers.
• Managed and developed content programming of Yahoo! Real Estate for inclusion on Yahoo! Front Page.
• Developed Fraud Moderation system for Yahoo! Auctions, consisting of fraud detection engine and moderation tool for customer care.
• Migrated various Auction pages to PHP and updated the registration page to include identity validation.
• Developed account verification tool to support the new identity validation system.
• Implemented search engine optimizations for Auctions site to increase page ranking.
• Awards: 2007 Webby Award Winner, Real Estate Category, People’s Voice Award – Yahoo! Real Estate. From March 2005 to June 2007 (2 years 4 months) Research Engineer @ • Developed air traffic simulation and automation tools to test feasibility of automated air traffic management. Collected data and created analytical software. Assisted in published reports of research results.
• Project SOAR: Extended automated air traffic control simulation, including flight-planning tool, aircraft simulation tool, and air traffic control GUI. Completely redesigned GUI using OpenGL and C++, implemented simultaneous route generation algorithm for traffic efficiency using C++.
• Project FARGO: Created flight deck interface for high precision taxi control. Architected the software design. Developed the graphics engine using OpenGL and C++.
• Awards: 2006 NASA Group Achievement Award, System Level Integrated Concept Development Team – Project SOAR. From June 2002 to March 2005 (2 years 10 months)
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science @ Stanford University Andrew Yeh is skilled in: PHP, Python, JavaScript, C/C++ STL, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Django, EC2, jQuery, Apache
Websites:
http://www.twiigs.com/,
http://web.archive.org/web/20010502093852/http://www.topple.net/