Richard Yang
Software Engineer at Wealthfront
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Yang is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of hands-on experience and a BS in Computer Science from UCLA. He transitioned from multiple internships at startups and large media companies into a full-time engineering role at Wealthfront, where he works across the stack with a focus on web frontend and product-facing features. At UCLA he led project and site teams for student publications, blending technical delivery with product and team management. Richard ships pragmatic, user-focused interfaces informed by backend experience from production engineering and fintech. He maintains a personal site showcasing projects and code, reflecting a consistent drive to turn campus and internship work into production-quality systems. Colleagues would describe him as a frontend-minded full-stack engineer who cares about polish, reliability, and clear product thinking.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Lynbrook High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (14)
temp9
stack8
data-journalism8
jekyll8
journalism6
data-visualization6
lifestyle6
datasets6
data-science6
react6
nextjs3
javascript2
frontend2
python2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryang72/ryang72.github.io
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
ucladevx/BruinManager
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:9 PRs, 73 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
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