Shawn Walton

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.