Yangshun Tay Resume

About

Front End Engineer proficient in the full front end stack. Interested in building products, design systems, user experience, and build tooling.

Experience

Staff Engineer·Meta

20172023

  • Full front end stack development
  • Led development of meta.com
  • Built Docusaurus 2 alpha
  • Built design systems used on meta.com and oculus.com

Software Engineer·Grab

20152017

  • Engineering lead for Grab for Work, an enterprise solution for simplifying business transportation
  • Worked on web infrastructure; Developed automation tools to improve the CI workflow, set up linting, testing, type coverage

Projects

  • 2023 keyboards.css: Front end library-themed keyboards built using Tailwind CSS
  • 2018 Docusaurus: Lead maintainer for one of Meta's most popular open source project
  • 2018 Docusaurus: Lead maintainer for one of Meta's most popular open source project
  • 2018 tree-node-cli: Node.js library to list the contents of directories in a tree-like format
  • 2017 delete-github-forks: CLI to bulk delete GitHub forks in two simple steps
  • 2017 Front End Interview Handbook: Same as Tech Interview Handbook, but for front end
  • 2017 Tech Interview Handbook: Interview study notes turned into a website used by millions of developers over the world
  • 2015 NUSWhispers: Started Singapore's top shitposting platform
  • 2014 NUSMods: Led development of the unofficial NUS timetable builder until it became official
  • 2013 #ifihadglass: Entry for the Google Glass Explorers program

External Mentions

Talks

Awards

  • 2022 Outstanding Young Computing Alumni Award 2021
  • 2016 Grabathon 4.0, 2nd Place for Most Technologically Challenging, 2nd Place for Most Popular, 3rd Place for Most Hyper-Local Product
  • 2016 Facebook x GIT SG Hack for a Cause 2016, Best All-Round Product
  • 2016 Grabathon 3.0, 1st Place for Build Challenge
  • 2015 Grabathon (Grab Internal Hackathon) 2.0, Overall Champion
  • 2015 NUSS Medal for Outstanding Achievement (Best Graduate Throughout Course of Study with Outstanding All-round Achievements)
  • 2015 NUS School of Computing, Valedictorian Finalist
  • 2015 NUS School of Computing (6th STePS), 3rd Prize for CS4344 Networked and Mobile Gaming
  • 2015 NUS School of Computing (6th STePS), Best Project Award among Selected Final Year Projects
  • 2015 NUS School of Computing, Certificate of Distinction in Interactive Media
  • 2015 Hack&Roll 2015, Second Prize & People's Choice Award
  • 2014 PA Tech Connects Competition 2014, 3rd Runner Up
  • 2014 Hackatron Asia Singapore 2014, Champion
  • 2014 NUS School of Computing (5th STePS), 2nd Prize for CS3240 Interaction Design
  • 2014 Smart Port Hackathon 2014, Third Prize and Best Use of Data
  • 2014 Startup Asia Hackathon, HERE Maps API Prize
  • 2014 NUS School of Computing (4th STePS), Best Project Award for CP3101A Global Open Source Project
  • 2014 NUS School of Computing (4th STePS), Best Project Award for CS3218 Multimodal Processing in Mobile Platforms
  • 2014 Facebook Singapore Hackathon, Third Place
  • 2013 NUS School of Computing (3rd STePS), Best Project Award for CS3216 Software Development on Evolving Platforms
  • 2013 Apple WWDC 2013 Student Scholarship
  • 2013 NUS Faculty of Engineering Design-Centric Programming T-shirt Design Competition, Winner
  • 2013 Photo Hack Day 4, Crowd Favorite and Aviary API Prize
  • 2013 Foursquare Hackathon 2013, Jury Prize and Game Prize
  • 2012 IUMS 2017 Logo Design Competition, Runner-up
  • 2012 AngelHack 2012, Gimbal API Award
  • 2012 Health 2.0 Hackathon, 3rd Runner Up
  • 2012 PayPal Hackathon, People's Choice Award
  • 2012 NUS CS3217 Software Engineering on Modern Application Platforms, AY2011/12 Sem 2, Letter of Commendation for excellent performance in the course
  • 2012 NUSSU Student Life Tee Design Competition, Winner
  • 2012 NUSSU Welfare Diary Design Competition, Winner
  • 2012 NUS Faculty of Engineering Design-Centric Curriculum T-shirt Design Competition, Winner
  • 2011 NUS Faculty of Engineering, Dean's List
  • 2011 NUS EG2604 Innovation Program AY2010/11 Sem 2, Merit Award and Best Poster Design Award
  • 2011 NUS-HTC Apprentice Challenge, Finalist
  • 2010 NUS Kent Ridge Undergradate Scholarship