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Christine Yen

Founder of Honeycomb.io

Greater Reno Area

Overview 

Christine Yen is the CEO of Honeycomb.io, where she co-founded the company and played a crucial role in its growth and success. With a background in software engineering at top tech companies like Facebook and Google, she has a proven track record in building and leading successful startups, specializing in distributed systems and scalability. Yen's career highlights include co-founding Honeycomb.io, a successful early-stage startup, and holding senior software engineering positions at prominent tech companies like Facebook and Google, showcasing her expertise in software development and leadership in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

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Honeycomb.io

  • 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

Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems.

Raised $146,900,000.00 from Storm Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Dominik Richter, Headline, Guillermo Rauch, Insight Partners and Industry Ventures.

honeycomb.io
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Facebook

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2013 - 2015

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

staynalive.com
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Parse

  • 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

Ridejoy

  • 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

Venuetastic

  • 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

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Google

  • Software Engineer

    2010 - 2010

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com
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Aardvark

  • 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.

Aardvark is a social search engine that allows users to ask questions and receive answers from their extended network.

Raised $6,000,000.00 from Baseline Ventures, Auren Hoffman, Signatures Capital, August Capital, Harrison Metal, Shervin Pishevar, SV Angel and Techammer.

vark.com

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