Event August 18, 2022 — talk by Sui Ting Yeung

Talk — Make Life Better for Services Business Owners

Yelp is well known for its restaurant reviews, waitlist and reservations. However, in recent years, we’ve also built a wide range of features in the local services domain, aiming to make our business owners successful by helping them connect with consumers. Sui Ting will highlight some features we built and evolved for business owners over recent years. We will also discuss the overall design and some specific technologies Yelp employs to make building such features both straightforward and fun!

Speaker: Sui Ting Yeung

Sui Ting is originally from Shanghai and graduated from the University of California, Irvine, majoring in computer science and business economics. He has since been a backend engineer at Yelp on the service leads team for the last three years. He is one of the founding engineers building the leads platform and improving the Request-a-Quote experience. He worked on both consumer-facing, business-facing features and technical infrastructure work. He enjoys working across the stack from microservice and database design to data pipeline building. Aside from work, he is also passionate about tennis, poker and traveling.

Moderator: Tim Go

Tim is a systems engineer on the Core Infra team at Yelp responsible for the company's internal corporate systems infrastructure. He is from San Francisco, has been with Yelp for five years, and enjoys traveling—one of the international joys of the world—while learning new languages and culture. Before joining Yelp, he worked at WeWork, a real-estate startup based in NYC. Tim studied General Business at City College of San Francisco and is a Microsoft Certified Professional.

About Yelping From Home:

Yelp’s mission is to connect people with great local businesses, and two of the teams working behind the scenes to make that happen are our five star engineering and product teams.

Playing an active role in our community is a value that we have strongly prioritized over the years. Typically we would invite you to come to Yelp’s HQ to network, grab a slice of ‘za, and learn about the technology and culture behind Yelp. With stay-at-home orders across the globe, Yelp (like many of you) has had no choice but to adapt to these changes. We understand that this is a strange and challenging time for many, so we’d like to invite you to join us as we navigate this new normal for the tech community together.

To stay connected, create space for folks to collaborate and share some of the things Yelp has been working on, we are launching our very own virtual tech talk series. This series of talks will feature Yelp employees from engineering and product share their stories about career development, technical skills and workplace challenges in a well-distributed environment.