Angela Yu
Founder And Managing Director at NHS
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAngela Yu is a founder, medical doctor and developer with 11 years of experience building education-first tech and healthcare solutions as Managing Director of London App Brewery and a practicing NHS doctor. She has taught over 2,000,000 students to code, led backend work on popular bootcamp repos (notably securing authentication with bcrypt, Passport and encrypted secrets), and speaks internationally on female entrepreneurship, innovation policy and medtech futures. Recognised as a Rising Star in UK IT and a BusinessCloud 101 Female Founder, she blends clinical insight, neuroscience research experience and hands-on engineering to design practical learning products with real-world clinical relevance. Comfortable shifting between wards, classrooms and codebases, she brings a rare combination of patient-facing credibility and scalable technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bristol Grammar SchoolUniversity College London
Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (18)
mongoose10
javascript10
expressjs10
authentication10
user-authentication10
mongodb-database10
security10
passportjs10
nodejs10
mongodb10
bcrypt10
session-management9
apidoc9
cookie9
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
londonappbrewery/Authentication-Secrets
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Companion Code for the Authentication Module on The Complete 2019 Web Development Bootcamp
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
Contributions summary:Angela contributed to the authentication module, focusing on backend development. They implemented encryption using Mongoose plugins, integrated environment variables for secrets, and refactored the code to use bcrypt for secure password hashing. The user also integrated sessions and cookies using Express.js middleware, along with setting up Passport for local authentication using Mongoose. They further extended functionality to allow users to submit their secrets.
companionweb-developmentauthentication
londonappbrewery/Destini
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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