Yelp
Shawn Walton is a Senior Software Engineer at Yelp since August 2016, specializing as a full stack web engineer on the SearchUX team, where significant contributions include delivering user-facing features, improving performance, co-architecting a backend migration to GraphQL, and leading a desktop web search page conversion to React. Prior experience includes a web development internship at TigerText, focusing on a single-page web messaging app, grading for CS 484: Parallel Programming at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a software engineering internship at The Dow Chemical Company, developing internal HTML5 web applications. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, completed in 2016.
Yelp
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Yelp connects people with great local businesses. Its users have contributed over 100 million reviews of almost every type of local business, from restaurants, boutiques and salons to dentists, mechanics, plumbers and more. Yelp's business revolves around the connections made between the consumers who read and write reviews and the local businesses that they describe. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in July 2004.