Frank Yang
Founder & CEO at WorkMagic
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolFrank Yang is a founder and growth leader with nine years of experience building adtech and growth platforms, most recently as Head of Growth for TikTok Ads and now founding WorkMagic in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends product, data and engineering instincts—early roles in product and data analytics plus a computer information systems minor underpin his hands-on approach to scaling ad products and AI-driven adtech. As CEO he pairs strategic GTM and monetization expertise from ByteDance with technical contributions to open-source projects like CTFd, where he improved backend performance and schema validation. A summa cum laude finance graduate with financial engineering training, he brings atypical cross-disciplinary fluency between quantitative finance, product strategy, and backend engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Financial Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Financial Engineering at University of International Business and EconomicsBeijing No.2 Middle SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Summa Cum Laude Finance; Financial Mathematics; minor in Computer Information System, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Summa Cum Laude Finance; Financial Mathematics; minor in Computer Information System at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (13)
python10
flask10
flask-ask10
api-design9
database-management9
marshmallow8
sqlalchemy7
tokenize6
configurations6
testing6
monaco-editor6
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
CTFd/CTFd
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
CTFs as you need them
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 6 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Frank primarily focused on bug fixes and implementing improvements within the CTFd platform. They addressed a cache error related to template overrides and reduced the frequency of ping events, enhancing the application's performance. The user also contributed to schema validation, specifically for pages and challenges. Furthermore, they refactored the database ping mechanism and adjusted team mode functionalities within the API.
ctfflasksecurityattack-defenseneed
frankli0324/ctfd-pages-theme
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 9 months
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