Tong Yang
React Developer at Freelance
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTong Yang is a React developer and full-stack engineer based in Markham, Ontario, who leverages a strong data-science and computational econometrics background to build data-driven, user-focused web applications. With nine years of technical experience and a University of Toronto full-stack certificate, Tong combines Typescript, React, Node.js, Redux and GraphQL to deliver interactive SPAs and production-ready services. Past roles include data science and research work where he improved predictive models and engineered automated pipelines—skills he now applies to front-end performance and UX-driven design. As a freelance developer, he’s implemented OAuth2 authentication, MERN stack architectures, and pragmatic state management while mentoring teammates and optimizing developer workflows. Notably, his research and HockeyTech projects show a track record of squeezing measurable gains (15–27%) from models and pipelines, reflecting a data-first approach to product engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computational Econometrics, Master's degree, Computational Econometrics at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
camp9
web-application6
javascript5
css5
atlas3
mongoose3
expressjs3
react2
commerce2
nodejs2
mongodb-atlas2
mongodb2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Dragontalker/BootCamp_Activities
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:457 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
Dragontalker/MySQL-study-notes
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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