Good trips
Memorable getaways, new experiences, and stories worth bringing home.
San Francisco, California
Nathan Yu
Building useful software—and making time for new places, good photos, and the occasional great drive.
Outside work, I’m happiest when I’m exploring, making something, or learning my way into a new challenge!
Away from the keyboard
Always finding something worth getting into.
Everyday frames
Photography that holds onto the atmosphere of a place or moment.
Staying active
Snowboarding, climbing, and weightlifting keep me moving year-round.
Selected projects
Things I’ve enjoyed building.
Full-stack web app
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Tichu Elo System
A full-stack web app for running a Tichu group, with live Elo standings, match history, balanced-team generation, and Discord-ready sharing. An authenticated admin console makes it easy to manage players and games while ratings recalculate automatically.
TypeScriptReactDrizzle
View project You’re here
NY.
Personal Portfolio
A modern, responsive home for my work, interests, and experience, rebuilt with Next.js, TypeScript, and accessible component primitives.
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View project What I build
Thoughtful products, built to work in the real world.
My work spans frontend architecture, product development, developer tooling, automation, and AI infrastructure.
2025 — 2026
CloudTrucks
Senior Software Engineer
Built scalable frontend systems and practical automation that shortened onboarding, reduced operating costs, and made complex support and invoicing workflows easier to manage.
2021 — 2024
Software Engineer
Led frontend and mid-tier work across LinkedIn Learning, large-scale email experiences, developer tooling, experimentation, and responsible AI compliance products.
2020 — 2021
PROS
Software Engineer I
Built onboarding interfaces and dataset APIs while helping modernize the core application with TypeScript and modular service layers.