Wanxian Yang
Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWanxian Yang is a Software Engineer II at AWS in Seattle with six years of experience building cloud-native developer tools and production systems. She contributes to high-impact open-source projects like the AWS Copilot CLI, where she improved CLI workflows and task-run functionality for ECS/Fargate and App Runner deployments. With a Master's in Computer Science from UIUC, she blends backend and DevOps skills to simplify developer experiences and shipping reliability at scale. Colleagues know her for thoughtful CLI ergonomics and pragmatic testing in Go, and she enjoys crafting elegant, user-facing engineering solutions that quietly reduce operational friction.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English, Japanese, German
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Github Skills (9)
command-line-interface10
go10
aws-cli10
command-line10
cli10
aws-ecs9
aws-apprunner9
testing8
aws-cloudformation6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aws/copilot-cli
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The AWS Copilot CLI is a tool for developers to build, release and operate production ready containerized applications on AWS App Runner or Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 2369 reviews, 294 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Wanxian implemented the "ask for task run" feature in the Copilot CLI by adding the functionality to ask for the task run and include the necessary flags for the task family and other parameters. The contributions involve modifying Go code for testing and command-line interface (CLI) functionalities within the `aws/copilot-cli` repository. The changes highlight the user's focus on enhancing the command-line experience for users deploying applications on AWS App Runner or Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate.
aws-app-runnerecrproduction-readydeveloper-toolsaws-fargate-application
Lou1415926/copilot-cli
Feb 2021 - Apr 2024
The AWS Copilot CLI is a tool for developers to build, release and operate production ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1391 pushes, 392 branches in 3 years 2 months
fargateecsproduction-readyamazonoperate
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