Yale Yng-wong
Software Engineer at Amazon
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYale Yng-wong is a full-stack software engineer with six years of experience building JavaScript and Python applications, currently at Amazon after a stretch modernizing and shipping an Electron-based API testing tool at Swell. He blends front-end React/Redux work (including a migration to Redux Toolkit and expanded TypeScript coverage) with backend and DevOps improvements—dependency fixes, Playwright test migrations, OAuth and NoSQL session caching—that shrink build size and improve cross-platform reliability. At 2yw he optimized data-heavy systems using C extensions with NumPy/Pandas, Arrow/Plasma for zero-copy reads, and AWS deployment patterns to run thousands of backtests efficiently. An active open-source contributor, he works on Swell (multi-protocol API testing for streaming tech like SSE, WebSockets, gRPC) and writes about releases publicly. Based in Cambridge, he pairs technical rigor with creative hobbies—modular synthesis and bouldering—that hint at an engineer who values iteration, ergonomics, and the craft of tooling.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology and Art Studio:Architecture (honors), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology and Art Studio:Architecture (honors) at Wesleyan University
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
webpack10
webpacker10
react10
nodejs9
testing8
wpgraphql7
http7
typescript7
websocket7
sse7
wordpress-graphql7
typescript-types7
api7
grpc7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/Swell
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC..
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 61 commits, 7 PRs in 24 days
Contributions summary:Yale primarily updated dependencies and fixed development server configurations, indicating involvement in the project's build and development environment. They made changes across multiple files, including front-end (React), back-end (main_process), and configuration files (webpack), suggesting full-stack responsibilities. The user's modifications also included code related to testing, indicating familiarity with quality assurance.
grpcendpointsendpointswellmonitoring
Speakin-My-Language/sml
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Matchmaking site for your next coding partner.
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 18 PRs in 3 days
reactmatchmakingpartnertypescriptnextjs
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