Christine Yen

Co-founder/CEO

2019 - Current

Honeycomb is the observability platform that enables engineering teams to find and solve problems they couldn't before. We enable engineers to answer novel questions about their ever-evolving cloud applications, so they can deploy confidently, resolve incidents faster and focus on high-value work that drives innovation. Give us a try :)

Co-founder/CPO

2015 - 2019

Senior Software Engineer

2013 - 2015

Software Engineer

2012 - 2015

(Acquired by Facebook in May 2013) - Architected and implemented Parse Analytics; from zero to billions of events written per day, read by Parse app developers and internal analyses - Built Cassandra-based system for realtime analytics, data flow 2x'ed every 4 months - Worked closely to integrate Parse with FB data systems and teams: Hive, Presto, Puma, Hive/MySQL - Launched and maintained several products within Analytics; touched Go, Ruby, JS on a regular basis - Led team of 4 engineers to streamline and enrich the Parse.com experience

iOS Contractor

2011 - 2012

- Sole developer of iPhone application for existing web service - Built new API layer of web service for mobile access - Rapidly prototyped several product iterations to guide design based on user feedback

Co-founder/CTO

2010 - 2011

- Sole developer on event space booking system; launched in 3 months as part of Y Combinator W2011 - Constant iteration on developing product, heavy involvement in user research - Built front-/backend using Rails, Solr, jQuery, PostgreSQL. Limited design work as well

Software Engineer

2010 - 2010

Software Engineer

2009 - 2010

(Acquired Feb. 2010 by Google) - Developed "etiquette matching" in routing logic, tracked eligibility for "edgy"/"lousy" questions - Built dashboard to capture real-time system stats and activity with emphasis on caching and performance - Involved in the storage/business logic layer of rewrite post-acquisition - Led the instrumentation and generation of analytics underpinning system performance and usage.