Speaker: Amy Yin
Amy is a software engineer at Coinbase and was the first engineer hired for Coinbase Commerce, a non-custodial payment processor that allows merchants to accept cryptocurrencies. Coinbase Commerce has launched and has processed millions of dollars, free, of crypto payments for merchants across the world. She is now building out a new team within the Coinbase consumer flagship product, Coinbase.com, to help investors grow and diversify their portfolios. She is hiring aggressively for the NY and SF offices so please email amy.yin@coinbase.com to chat about opportunities to build Finance 2.0!
She is passionate about technology for the developing world and closing the gender gap. While studying Computer Science at Harvard, she founded the Harvard Women in Computer Science and received the Harvard College Women's Leadership Award for her contributions to the technical and entrepreneurial community of women at Harvard. Before Coinbase she was an engineer at Hired and Facebook's Internet.org and started Vapor Communications while in college with Harvard Professor David Edwards. In her free time she maintains a steady yoga and weight lifting practice, goes to music festivals with her friends, reads and travels.
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Modern User Interfaces: Screens and Beyond
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
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Modern CS in the Real World
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Container and Orchestration Platforms in Action
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Finding the Serverless Sweetspot
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Chaos, Complexity, and Resilience
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Real World Security
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21st Century Languages
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Empowered Teams
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