Linda Yang
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLinda Yang is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems and AI tooling, currently at Airtable after helping scale search, payments, and internal LLM libraries at Newfront. She brings strong multi-language expertise (TypeScript, Python, Java, Ruby) and production experience with NestJS, FastAPI, Rails, AWS, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, and RAG/LLM orchestration. A University of Waterloo BMath graduate, Linda has shipped infrastructure and ML-informed features—from real-time data pipelines and evaluation frameworks to an AI-powered benefits assistant—at startups and high-growth companies. She pairs pragmatic engineering with hands-on prompt engineering and evaluation practices, and her background in bioinformatics research hints at a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computational Mathematics, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computational Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (22)
mongoose4
expressjs4
backend-api4
audio4
text-files4
react4
api3
spring3
spring-boot3
mongodb3
backend3
java2
pulse2
wave2
javascript2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lindaayangg/lindaayangg.github.io
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Personal Website V3
Contributions:3 PRs, 66 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 11 months
reactnextjs
lindaayangg/wave-web
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Web app allowing the transfer of images and text over sound
Contributions:100 commits, 46 PRs, 112 pushes in 6 months
soundaudio
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