Ashley Yang
Senior Instructor at Ada Developers Academy
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAshley Yang is a Senior Instructor and full-stack web developer with nine years of experience teaching and building inclusive, practical software at Ada Developers Academy and previously engineering at Expedia Group. Based in Portland, she blends classroom-tested pedagogy—rooted in her Teach For America and K-5 teaching background—with hands-on expertise in Python, Flask, SQL, JavaScript and React to help diverse, underrepresented learners launch careers in tech. Known for embracing errors and championing self-documenting code, she focuses on reducing friction for learners and teams while improving real-world outcomes. Her career arc spans production service ownership and incident response at scale to immersive, equity-driven instruction, giving her a rare mix of operational rigor and educational empathy.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science at Reed CollegeMasters, Urban Education, Masters, Urban Education at Cardinal Stritch University
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Github Skills (18)
static-data10
create-project10
ada9
nodejs9
chat8
static-site8
javascript8
python7
react7
cpp6
codesandbox5
static-site-generator4
livecode3
typescript3
capstone3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Ada-C23/adagrams-py
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:23 reviews, 96 comments in 6 days
Ada-C22/task-list-api
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:24 reviews, 104 comments in 19 days
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