About

Sarah Yu is a co-founder and indie game developer at elytra games. She has over 9 years of relevant experience in the technology industry. Sarah previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where she worked on the Economic Graph. She also worked as a JavaScript Engineer at KQED, where she architected and implemented a new search engine solution from the ground up using Elasticsearch, Node.js/Express, and AWS. Sarah built a new frontend component for audio archive search using ES6 React/Redux and CSS. She created a proof of concept full-stack authentication system to manage KQED membership by linking Auth0 to Salesforce and Eloqua using React, Node.js, Sequelize, and MySQL. She contributed to a precipitation, snowpack, and reservoir API using Python, Beautiful Soup, and MySQL. Sarah set up continuous integration for both search services and frontend React architecture using GitHub, CodeShip, and AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Cloudfront). She spearheaded best practices for the engineering team, including testing using Mocha/Chai/jsdom, git workflow, documentation, and wrote coding challenges for the interview process. Sarah holds a Master of Science (M.S.) in Science Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Ecology and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College. Her tech stack includes AWS, Javascript, Software Engineer, Search, MySQL, Elastic Search, Frontend, NodeJS, CI/CD, test, Redux, Salesforce, Integration, and Python. Sarah is currently working on elytra games' first game, Bugaboo Pocket.