Alan Yee
Hacking Cool Stuff at Little Green Gadgets
Millbrae, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Yee is a versatile software engineer with 11+ years building mobile apps, backend services, and developer tools, blending hands-on coding with a strong interest in game development and parallel computing. He has shipped Android work at Motorola and contributed to cross-platform tooling at Sun and Bling, plus ongoing mobile and eco-social projects as a consultant. Alan is an active open-source contributor across security and tooling ecosystems—improving TensorFlow autoencoder modules, hardening Security Monkey’s Google SSO flow, and refining Python tooling for S3 scanning and Artifactory clients. He favors practical, maintainable code (PEP 8, refactors, better error handling) and has a penchant for low-level roots like assembly alongside modern stacks such as Ruby and Python. Based in Millbrae, CA, he combines product-minded thinking about transparency in commerce with a hacker’s curiosity for exploring hardware-accelerated browsers and platform internals. An unusual detail: he still enjoys revisiting assembly and parallel-computing ideas to abstract backend capabilities, revealing a decades-spanning technical curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (34)
google-cloud-platform10
python10
artifactory10
testing10
machine-learning10
autoencoder10
security10
argparse10
gcp10
tensorflow10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
refactoring10
python-lib10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
devopshq/artifactory
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
dohq-artifactory: a Python client for Artifactory
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 13 PRs, 17 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the backend of the `devopshq/artifactory` Python client, focusing on code optimization and improvement. Their commits include refactoring and removing unnecessary elements in `artifactory.py` and `admin.py`. They demonstrated a good understanding of Python best practices by replacing features with immutable array types. Furthermore, the user updated the test suite.
python-libraryartifactoryartifactory-query-languagepythonpython-client
stewartmcgown/uds
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Unlimited Drive Storage by splitting binary files into base64
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on improving the `uds.py` script, the core logic of the project. Their contributions included implementing argument parsing using `argparse`, refactoring the codebase for efficiency by removing unnecessary print calls and using list comprehensions, and adding shorter flags for command-line arguments. They also fixed bugs and improved the overall structure and readability of the code. The user also touched on `api.py` and `custom_exceptions.py` suggesting a broad understanding of the project architecture.
unlimitedgoogle-drivesplittingbase64python3
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