Alex Yang
Summary
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RockstarAlex Yang is a rising junior in Computer Science (with a Mathematics minor) at UIUC who has accumulated five years of engineering experience across internships and student-run tech organizations. He’s delivered production-facing infrastructure and APIs at Meta, NVIDIA, and Capital One, and led a TypeScript API team for HackIllinois powering services used by 900+ participants. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, his contributions range from UI component work and disciplined formatting on open-source projects to deploying multi-region Python services with auto-failover for high-availability systems. He also teaches systems programming concepts as a course assistant and has practical NLP and web-scraping experience from startup work, demonstrating a mix of systems, full-stack, and applied ML tooling. Headquartered in the Greater Chicago area, Alex joins Jump Trading as an incoming SWE intern, bringing a pragmatic blend of production experience and community-oriented open-source contributions.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
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javascript10
contribution-graph10
donation10
css9
open-source8
basics8
co7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Syknapse/Contribute-To-This-Project
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
This project is waiting for your contribution. If you have never contributed code on GitHub before, this is the project to get you started.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 12 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily involve modifying the `index.html` file, indicating a focus on front-end development. Their commits include adding and merging code related to contributor cards, suggesting they are working on UI components and layout. The user likely has a role in updating or adding new contributor profiles and resources to the project. Additionally, the frequent application of "prettier" suggests familiarity with code formatting tools, common in front-end workflows.
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blueputty01/blueputty01
May 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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