Evan Yang
Software Developer - Open Source at Freelance
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Yang is a software developer and open-source enthusiast with eight years of experience building front-end and full-stack applications across startups, nonprofits, and enterprise environments in Los Angeles. He has shipped production React and React Native UI components, migrated legacy codebases, and optimized frontend architectures—often trimming code size and improving maintainability by adopting modern patterns like Hooks and Context. Evan contributes to several public projects (Betterlytics, Websurfx, Dissent, and Langx) and balances hands-on engineering with community-driven work at Hack for LA. His background includes work on large-scale stacks (GraphQL/Relay at Meta) and practical cloud and CI/CD experience (AWS, Docker, CircleCI), plus a knack for concise engineering: e.g., designing a 60% more succinct event ID scheme. Currently focused on open-source development while pursuing an MS in Computer Science, he blends product-minded implementation with language and tooling curiosity.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Portuguese, Italian
Github Skills (53)
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github-api10
tandem9
search-engine9
java9
metasearch9
react9
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rust9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
evanyang1/websurfx
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
:rocket: An open source alternative to searx which provides a modern-looking :sparkles:, lightning-fast :zap:, privacy respecting :disguised_face:, secure :lock: meta search engine
Contributions:35 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
evanyang1/evanyang1.github.io
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
to be hosted
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
hosted
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