Yee Chow
Software Engineer at GitHub
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYee Chow is a software engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building production web applications and driving ML-focused initiatives. Having progressed from Ruby on Rails roles at startups and media firms to senior engineering positions and a current software engineer role at GitHub, Yee blends practical backend expertise with growing strengths in machine learning, deep neural networks and recommender systems. Their academic background spans molecular modelling and an incomplete PhD in machine translation, reflecting a rare mix of computational science and applied NLP interests. Equally at home optimizing Ruby stacks and exploring deep reinforcement learning, Yee enjoys learning both natural and programming languages—a curiosity that informs their work on predictive analytics and collaborative filtering. An engineer who codes with a researcher’s mindset, they bring steady delivery experience alongside a persistent drive to prototype ML-driven features.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (incomplete) Machine Translation, PhD (incomplete) Machine Translation at Pohang University of Science and TechnologyCertificate Agricultural Systems and Engineering, Certificate Agricultural Systems and Engineering at Asian Institute of TechnologyUniversity College London
English, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, Burmese
Github Skills (12)
component-library8
ruby8
testing8
react8
minecraft6
typescript6
capybara5
okta5
mock-server4
mocking4
rails2
rubocop2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
citizensadvice/rails-docker
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 4 months
cyeet/cyeet.github.io
Mar 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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