Andrew Yang
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Yang is a seasoned JavaScript engineer and pragmatic technology leader with a decade of experience building and scaling front-end systems across startups and fast-growing companies in Sydney. He has progressed from hands-on frontend development to engineering management and staff-level leadership at places like Rokt and Immutable, and he currently founders BuyWisely while serving as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. Deeply focused on SPA frameworks (Angular, Vue, React), he emphasizes clean, maintainable code, reusable web components, and strong CI/CD practices that help teams ship reliably. Andrew contributes to well-known open-source efforts around date libraries—adding thorough unit and ESLint tests to the popular You-Dont-Need-Momentjs project—showing a practical commitment to tooling and code quality. With a Master’s in System and Control and a background spanning both frontend and backend work, he blends systems thinking with pragmatic engineering to solve complex product problems. Colleagues describe him as self-motivated and mentorship-oriented, consistently translating architectural decisions into measurable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Automation, Bachelor’s Degree, Automation at Shandong University of Science and TechnologyUNSW Sydney
English, shandonghua
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
javascript10
date-fns10
eslint9
dayjs7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Momentjs
Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
List of functions which you can use to replace moment.js + ESLint Plugin
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 36 commits, 17 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew's primary contribution involves creating and refining unit tests for the project's core functionalities. They wrote tests to validate the behavior of date and time manipulation functions, ensuring they function as expected. Additionally, the user implemented tests for an ESLint plugin designed to discourage the use of the `moment.js` library, promoting the use of `date-fns` and native JavaScript date methods. They also added dayjs comparisons to existing tests.
bundle-sizetree-shakingdate-fnsmomentjstimeago
ddvkid/hackathon
May 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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