Christopher S. Yap UI Engineer and UX Designer

Profile

81% UI Engineer / 13% UX Designer / 4% Ninja / 2% Magician

Contact

  • buzzyapyear@gmail.com
  • www.chrisyap.com

A Little Ice-Breaker

I have a dog named Jolly the Puggle, I'm a classically trained violinist and pianist, everyone in my (human) family has a first name composed of 4 letters except me, I have electronic music in my DNA, I love technology and the great outdoors and try to do my part to reconcile the two, I think Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick were geniuses, I've been to 5 continents and I am dead-set on getting to all 7, my son listens to Erik Satie every night going to bed, I bike to work, I will eat every kind of taro-based dessert there is.

Recent Experience

Checkr | Engineering Manager

Checkr provides modern and compliant background checks for global enterprises and startups.

The Lytmus team has joined Checkr and is excited to help scale the company into the enterprise space.

More TBA...


Lytmus | Software Engineer

October 2018 - Lytmus has been acquired by Checkr

Lytmus is a bleeding-edge technical assessment platform, built with an intent to revolutionize hiring by leveling the playing field for candidates and employers with deep, objective and realistic assessments. I was hired as the first employee to work with the founders to bring the vision to life.

  • Lead engineering of all product user-interfaces
  • Conceptualize and design product user-experiences
  • Contribute to specification of a comprehensive API to harness the power of the platform
  • First employee, founding team

Betabrand | Software Engineer

Betabrand is a forward-thinking, California-infused fashion company, built from the ground up with technology at its core. I was hired, following a major round of venture capital funding, to help build a crowd-funding platform, which was conceived to evolve the company into its next phase of growth.

  • Build robust, perforance-minded user-interfaces
  • Optimize code for e-commerce goals
  • Design and instrument analytics campaigns, and optimize interfaces against gathered data
  • Integrate with existing Magento platform

Watchwith | Web-Applications Engineer

Watchwith is a platform built for the next generation of television media delivery. The platform enables content owners and advertisers to capitalize on contextual opportunities in the consumption of media by their audiences through the use of time-based metadata.

  • Architect and execute product engineering, focusing on user-interface code
  • Contribute to formation of product concepts
  • Design and prototype product concepts
  • Research delivery of web-applications to a wide array of platforms, from browsers, to mobile devices, smart TVs and set-top boxes.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

VoxPop | Lead Web Developer

  • San Francisco, CA
  • January 2010 - October 2010
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Flowgram | Software Developer

  • San Francisco, CA
  • October 2007 - January 2009
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Exobi Interactive | Co-Founder, Lead Designer

  • San Francisco, CA
  • January 2006 - January 2012
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DHAP Digital | Interactive Developer

Entercomm | Web Production Artist

  • San Francisco, CA
  • October 2001 - September 2004
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NOVO Interactive | Production Engineer

  • New York, NY
  • September 2000 - March 2001
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Skills

Coding

JavaScript (includingReact, AngularJs, jQuery), HTML, CSS (including Bootstrap, IBM Carbon, Foundation), Python (Django, Pyramid/Pylons), JSP (Spring, Tiles, Struts), PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Git, Unix command-line, among other things, as well as a healthy love of learning.

Platforms

Mac OS X, Windows, Linux.

Education