Jack Yang
Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Yang is a Software Engineer II at AWS with eight years of experience building cloud-native applications and distributed systems using Java, JavaScript, Scala, and AWS toolings like API Gateway, Step Functions, Lambda, and DynamoDB. Based in Shenzhen with a U.S. background, he pairs front-end expertise in React/React Native and modern JS toolchains with solid backend and DevOps skills including Docker, ECS Fargate, and PostgreSQL/MongoDB. His path from a Biology degree to research scientist and Hack Reactor immersive alum reflects a data-driven, curious approach to engineering and teaching—he returned to Hack Reactor as a TA to mentor new developers. At AWS he focuses on production reliability and scalable architectures, often leveraging monitoring and load tools such as New Relic and k6. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and resourceful, able to move projects from prototype to resilient deployments. He brings a rare blend of research mindset and hands-on cloud engineering that helps teams ship fast without sacrificing robustness.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at University of WashingtonSoftware Engineering Immersive, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering Immersive, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Github Skills (26)
epub9
char9
extraction9
xps9
pdf9
text-processing9
tesseract9
mupdf9
data-extraction9
python-bindings9
parser8
pdf-parser8
text-extraction8
python8
pymupdf8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jackyjingyi/pdf_web
Feb 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
jackyjingyi/blog
Aug 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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