Dao Yang
Graduate Research Assistant
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDao Yang is a thesis-based Master's student in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo with 8 years of professional experience combining 24 months of full-time co-op development and 1.5 years of full-time research. He builds and ships production-ready backend systems and scalable services, translating complex problem statements into reliable, maintainable code across academic and industry environments including Huawei, D2L, and Uplift. His work blends hands-on systems research—such as Linux futex portability and network simulation with ns-3—with practical engineering in testing, full-stack, and capital engineering roles. As a current graduate research and teaching assistant, he routinely bridges theory and practice, mentoring students across multiple CS courses while advancing a thesis-driven research agenda. An understated strength is his fluency moving between low-level systems work and shipping user-facing features, enabling pragmatic solutions that stand up in production.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Iroquois Ridge High SchoolMaster's degree, Thesis-based Master of Computer Science, Master's degree, Thesis-based Master of Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
vulcan9
okta8
merge6
api6
aws6
mongodb5
social-media5
golang3
gitlab3
scheduling2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
all-things-networking/ns-3-dev-git
Jan 2023 - Sep 2023
GitHub read-only mirror of ns-3-dev repository, will be kept in sync with main GitLab.com repository. Please DO NOT file pull requests here; instead, file issues and merge requests at https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/
Contributions:334 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
devsyncgitlabmerge-requestsns-3
DannyDaoBoYang/PersonalWebsite
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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