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Yuchen Yao is a seasoned software engineer and researcher with a strong background in mobile and artificial intelligence development. Fluent in both English and Chinese, Yuchen has a proven track record of delivering high-impact projects, from developing Android and iOS applications to designing and implementing cutting-edge drone software. With experience working at top companies like Google, Amazon Web Services, and Symantec, Yuchen has honed her skills in agile development methodologies, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics of Computation from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Experience

  • Google
    • Kirkland, Washington, United States
    • SWE
      • Jul 2022 - Present
      • Kirkland, Washington, United States

      Android Studio testing tools team

  • Structures-Computer Interaction
    • Los Angeles, California, United States
    • Undergraduate Researcher
      • Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
      • Los Angeles, California, United States

      • Researched, tested and tuned simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework Cartographer for better performance on an agricultural robot• Designed and performed tests to assess performance of SLAM algorithms in Gazebo simulator using ROS

    • Treasurer
      • Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
      • UCLA

      IEEE Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Competition• Designed, implemented and tested drone software for indoor navigation and vehicle tracking• Researched and implemented a vehicle tracking algorithm that utilizes optical flow and Levy flight to achieve better accuracy and real time processing on flight computerUSRC (NASA sponsored undergraduate research program)• Designed and built software and hardware systems that enable drone swarms to lift and transport an object in air for a long period of time • Researched, designed and implemented a mesh network communication system based on Greedy Forwarding and Limited Flooding algorithms that is better suited for dynamic routing ad hoc networkAUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International)• Designed, manufactured, and tested software and hardware systems for carrying out mock search and rescue missions• Built the communication link between various parts of the system and added UI features on React frontend to access these features to control the drone

    • Software Development Engineer Intern
      • Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
      • United States

      Designed, implemented and tested a new feature that allows more complicated user attribute in Java for Amazon Cognito IdentityWorked with multiple teams to design, implement and integrate the new feature to existing systemConducted unit tests and integration tests on the new feature with JUnit and TestNg to ensure that it functions both in isolation and in the whole system

  • NortonLifeLock
    • Los Angeles, California, United States
    • Software Engineer Intern
      • Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
      • Los Angeles, California, United States

      Developed a continuous integration system using Azure DevOps to automate build and test process to replace the Jenkins system that was used by the iOS teamIntegrated Rome to Carthage workflow to provide better cache for the build process and thus sped up the whole build process by 5xResearched various functions and APIs in fastlane and Azure DevOps to provide the team a better estimate of whether a new feature, e.g. machine health monitor, should be included.

  • Symantec
    • United States
    • Software Engineer, Mobile Intern
      • Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
      • United States

      Developed middleware of a security product for Android platform using Kotlin, Java, and JavaScript to bridge communication between cloud service and the mobile appPrototyped a proof of concept app for iOS platform using Swift, JavaScriptCore, and WKWebView to test asynchronous loading capabilities on iOSConducted unit tests and produced robust test results for new features. Thoroughly tested their performance impact on the product using android studio profiler and other automation tools

  • Kika Tech, Inc.
    • Beijing City, China
    • Project Assistant Intern
      • May 2018 - Jul 2018
      • Beijing City, China

      Tested input efficiency for Kika keyboard input method on AndroidCooperated with an international intern to analyze input rules of Vietnamese and processinglogic of its keyboard and helped the team add this new language feature to the input method

Education

  • 2018 - 2022
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Bachelor's degree, Mathematics of Computation

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