Software Engineer at Cruise Automation
San Francisco, California
Cruise Automation
Software Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Airbnb
Software Engineer (Payments Experience)
August 2015 to February 2017
San Francisco Bay Area
Harvard University
Student
August 2011 to June 2015
Cambridge, MA
Airbnb
Software Engineering Intern (Trust and Safety Team)
June 2014 to August 2014
San Francisco
JPMorgan Chase
Application Developer Intern
June 2013 to August 2013
New York City
Autodesk
Web Delivery Engineering Intern
June 2012 to August 2012
One Market, SF
Cruise Automation
Technical Writer
February 2018 to January 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Heptio
Technical Writer
June 2017 to February 2018
Greater Seattle Area
What company does Jessica Yao work for?
Jessica Yao works for Cruise Automation
What is Jessica Yao's role at Cruise Automation?
Jessica Yao is Software Engineer
What industry does Jessica Yao work in?
Jessica Yao works in the Automotive industry.
Who are Jessica Yao's colleagues?
Jessica Yao's colleagues are Stephanie Fenno, Noa (Basher), Todd Brugger, J. Covarrubias, Amit Modi, Avinash Rugoobur, Jackie Shannon, Lucas Watson, Eric Danko, and Brad Beaton
📖 Summary
Software Engineer @ Cruise Automation I work on the Remote Assistance team. San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer (Payments Experience) @ Airbnb On my team, I implemented the following projects:• Payment service migration (Rails -> Java) and integration of client-side encryption for credit card vaulting• Payment routing optimization (collaboration with the data science team)• Local payment integrations (e.g. India)• Refactor of the reservation cancellation flow• Refactor of the financial reconciliation system• Amex Pay with Points integrationI also participated in the following roles:• Intern manager during Summer 2016• Sysops member (volunteered for site monitoring and issue response)• Talk presenter at Flawless Hacks (NYC) and Taking Flight (SF) From August 2015 to February 2017 (1 year 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaStudent @ Harvard University A.B. in Computer Science, Honors. Secondary in Mathematical Sciences. GPA: 3.80 From August 2011 to June 2015 (3 years 11 months) Cambridge, MASoftware Engineering Intern (Trust and Safety Team) @ Airbnb • Integrated data from SiftScience (a third party provider focused on fraud scoring) into fraud-prevention queues (lists of bad objects manually reviewed by operations agents)• Built up associations between reviewable objects and bad users; reduced certain queue workloads by ~22% by adding autocancellation logic• Improved user flag UI; developed heuristic to improve strength of flags as a fraud signal for use in queues From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months) San FranciscoApplication Developer Intern @ JPMorgan Chase • Researched open-source Javascript tools for semantic web data visualization and analysis• Reconfigured data into RDF-triple model, modified tool to display data from any database given a query endpoint URL, and added search functionality for different data node types• As part of a Force for Good project, developed webpage templates for nonprofit Together We Rise From June 2013 to August 2013 (3 months) New York CityWeb Delivery Engineering Intern @ Autodesk Under the Agile software development process, worked on two projects for the Autodesk USA website:• Using MySQL and an Excel API, implemented a web app with data validation---allows site publishers to upload trial software information into the database using an Excel spreadsheet• Programmed an updatable blog as a proof of concept when researching a new API (Java Content Repository) and web framework (Sling) From June 2012 to August 2012 (3 months) One Market, SFTechnical Writer @ Cruise Automation • Wrote documentation for a variety of systems (Planning, Remote Assistance, and Frameworks) by deep diving into the code. These have been used by systems engineers, QA, software engineers, and TPMs.• Edited and summarized design docs for software engineering.• Reviewed PRs and identified bugs in the code as I passed through.• Handled miscellaneous asks, such as (1) research help from systems engineers and softwareengineers (2) creating Looker dashboards (3) reviewing and rewording requirements. From February 2018 to January 2019 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaTechnical Writer @ Heptio My Heptio-specific work included a mix of documentation, testing, and demo creation for the following projects:• The initial releases of Heptio’s first open-source tools for Kubernetes: Ark (disaster recovery) and Sonobuoy (extensible cluster diagnostics). • A partner project combining ksonnet (a tool for writing Kubernetes configurations) and a observability-focused startup called Honeycomb.• Relaunch of the ksonnet tool at KubeCon. In this case, I also contributed to implementation of the site and the CLI tool itself.Because of Heptio's strong ties to the Kubernetes open-source community, I also served as a member of SIG docs, where I took on the following responsibilities/projects:• Reviewed and contributed PRs to the official docs.• Created a standardized glossary for Kubernetes terms.• Helped write and implement frontend for the first release of the application developer user journey (a guided path through the docs that is visible on the main docs page, redesigned as of Feburary 2018). From June 2017 to February 2018 (9 months) Greater Seattle Area
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