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Danning Yu
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Location: San Francisco Bay AreaApprox. Years of Experience: 3
Danning Yu's Current Workplace
Stripe
Company Size
2500+
Amount Raised
$8.7B
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
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Notable Investors
Google, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, General Catalyst
SaaS
Finance
FinTech
Lending
Software
Internet
Payments
Credit Cards
Developer APIs
Mobile Payments
Financial Services
Information Technology
Experience
Software Engineer
Stripe · Full-time
Aug 2022 - Present
2 yrs 5 mos
Highly available distributed caching clusters and key-value stores.
Teaching Assistant
UCLA Computer Science · Part-time
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
10 mos
TA for Introduction to Data Science (CS M148) and Programming Languages (CS 131) - Lectured to 100+ students when professor was not available - Taught recitation/discussion sections to 50+ students - Held office hours, answered questions on online class discussion forum - Designed and revised homeworks and projects
Software Engineering Intern - Backend
Splunk · Internship
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
4 mos
Worked on Splunk Core in C++. Indexer clustering team, Smartstore component. - Rewrote Splunk Core’s AWS S3 client to use the AWS C++ SDK instead of making HTTP requests, thus simplifying the codebase and reducing future maintenance burden for the indexing team - Built dashboards with Splunk SPL to monitor autoscaling behavior and display configuration info
OnCampus
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Engineering Lead
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
1 yr 1 mo
- Managed 4 developers to build website for discovering clubs at UCLA; conducted interviews and onboarded new members; held weekly meetings with status updates, teaching, and socials
Software Engineer
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
6 mos
- Designed and implemented backend Python Django logic, Postgres database schema, and frontend Javascript React components to increase club web page features, resulting in 80% more content - Collaborated with design and marketing teams to revamp website styling and add search engine optimization, leading to higher search result placement and 150% increase in website traffic - Performed load testing in anticipation of increased website traffic; identified and remediated latency bottlenecks, scaled system resources accordingly
Undergraduate Researcher
University of California, Los Angeles
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
2 yrs 4 mos
- Led 2 developers in building and launching an e-commerce website using NodeJS, Loopback, React, and Shopify for customers to order customized electrowetting-on-dielectric chips - Containerized application and used Docker Compose to run website with supporting services in development and production; created CI/CD pipeline for automatic testing and deployment - Developed scalable, object-oriented data acquisition and cleansing software in C# that consolidated 4 applications into 1 by simultaneously collecting data from multiple sensors at up to 512 Hz, increasing ease of use and future adaptability
Software Engineering Intern - Backend and Infrastructure
Splunk · Internship
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
7 mos
- Worked on all 3 pillars of observability for the cloud-native microservice-based Mission Control product, resulting in earlier and improved detection of high latencies and elevated failures - Implemented a distributed tracing system using OpenTracing libraries in Python and Golang, enabling visualization of inter-microservice traffic volume, latency, and errors via SignalFx uAPM - Instrumented microservices with logging and Prometheus metrics; created dashboards from collected telemetry to reduce incident mean time to resolve and streamline root cause analysis - Deployed microservices to Kubernetes using Ksonnet/Qbec and Jsonnet via Gitlab CI/CD pipelines and managed them via Kubectl - Assisted with product SOC2 compliance efforts, including encryption of data at rest, disaster recovery, and change approval
Suspension Manufacturing Lead
Bruin Racing
May 2019 - May 2020
1 yr 1 mo
- Led department members in the design and manufacture of the car’s suspension, teaching new members and allocating work to meet tight deadlines, resulting in a car with improved handling ability - Coded Python scripts to automate calculation and verification of various suspension parameters - Designed adjustable anti-roll bar to increase car stiffness and meet roll rate target; worked with other subsystems to integrate mechanism into the car.
Machine Operator
Lux Manufacturing
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
3 mos
- Optimized computer-generated G-code programs to increase part throughput and accuracy - Proactively met with shipping, programming, and quality departments to discuss their specific needs and expectations for each part, reducing product rejection rate and wasted time - Supported company efforts to meet ISO 9001:2015 by performing periodic quality control work
Education
  • 2021 - 2022
    UCLAMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science
  • 2018 - 2021
    UCLABachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
  • 2014 - 2018
    Archbishop Mitty High School