Jordan Yu
College Mentor at CoverHound
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Yu is a software engineer and college mentor based in New York with a decade of professional experience building user-focused web applications and internal tools. He blends front-end expertise (React, Vue, D3) with back-end work in Ruby on Rails and Go to deliver polished, efficient features—like animated quoting flows and OTP microservices—that improve user engagement and security. Known for acute attention to detail and a knack for streamlining legacy systems, he pairs engineering work with mentorship roles at Carnegie Mellon and community youth programs. Jordan’s background in cognitive science informs his emphasis on usability and tooling that helps people get things done, and he even applies that same process-oriented rigor to baking cookies.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Cognitive Science at University of California, BerkeleyBoston Latin SchoolFull-stack Software Development, Full-stack Software Development at App Academy
Github Skills (6)
fusion9
yelp9
nodejs6
visualization5
javascript5
data-visualization4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JordanYu4/Gylio
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:256 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
JordanYu4/Yelp-Helper
Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
Yelp data visualization tool built with JS, Node, Express, Chart.js, Yelp Fusion
Contributions:154 commits, 24 PRs, 74 pushes in 3 years 5 months
yelp-fusionchartnode-expressnode-jsjavascript
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