# Christina Y. > Software Engineer @ Everlaw Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christinay Hi, I’m Christina, a recent UC Berkeley graduate in Computer Science and Environmental Science. I’m passionate about using technology to make a positive impact on the world. In my free time, I love making music, hiking, and creating art. Go Bears! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Everlaw Jan 2025 – Present Full stack software engineer ### Research Assistant @ Innovative Genomics Institute Jan 2024 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States Honors Thesis: The Comparative Analysis of Rumen Microbiomes - Identifying Factors Contributing to Methane Emissions Studying under Postdoc Pengfan Zhang to build a comprehensive genome database of the rumen microbiome and establish key methanogens and metabolic pathways that contribute to methane production in ruminants. Developing algorithms and pipelines to accelerate genome binning, sequencing and assembly with Biotite Python package, applying statistical models (t-test, regression, random forest, PCA) to analyze species and gene abundance, diversity. ### Public Relations Director @ University of California Marching Band Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Led Cal Band’s PR and marketing initiatives, focusing on fundraising, recruitment, social media, community engagement, and alumni relations, managed a PR team to execute strategies and enhance visibility in the new ACC conference. Garnered over 500K+ views on social media platforms through reels, videos, and new content. Raised over $200,000 for the band through coordination with alumni and university development, planned and organized a fundraising dinner with 150+ guests and high-profile donors in attendance, secured sponsorships and donations. Coordinated with Cal Athletics management on media promotions, budgetary needs, and conference realignment. ### Computer Coordinator @ University of California Marching Band Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Implemented new pages and features on Members Only, a custom internal website written in Python Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript tailored to Cal Band members’ needs such as managing attendance, uniforms, instrument rentals, and recruiting. Designed excusal request system for members to be excused from performances without negatively affecting attendance. Kickstarted mobile app integration in Expo with digital, synchronized marching drill pages and sheet music features. Coordinated with cross-functional teams to implement user experience improvements according to member feedback. Maintained and improved public Wordpress website viewed by 700+ people monthly.(calband.berkeley.edu) ### Director's Assistant (Bass Drum) @ University of California Marching Band Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Responsible for leading sectionals to improve the musicality of the section. Also in charge of editing arrangements, rewriting music, and drum inventory. ### Teaching Assistant @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States Teaches the largest CS course at UC Berkeley through weekly lab/discussion sections of 40 students and personally-created teaching resources, leads students through guided collaboration, problem-solving, and active learning. Topics include OOP, interpreters, recursion, trees, higher-order functions, in Python and Scheme. Develops weekly tutoring worksheets, prep assignments for 20+ tutors and 100+ academic interns to use in tutoring and lab sections, serving over 800+ students every week. Assists 10-20 students weekly in office hours with individual help on labs, homeworks, projects, and course concepts. Designs and implements plagiarism detection systems, manages 20+ tutors and 100+ academic interns. ### CS 61A Tutor @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Assists students in office hours with homework, projects, and course concepts, leads weekly tutoring section for extra review and practice. Maintains academic integrity infrastructure to detect plagiarism and suspicious submissions. ### CS 61A Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Assists students in lab sections with debugging code and conceptual understanding. ### Data and Reporting Student Assistant @ Cal Alumni Association | UC Berkeley Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Updated activity reports documenting event participation to track alumni engagement. Encoded attendance into confidential database of over 500,000+ alumni. ### Camp Counselor @ TOKIHA Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Led Japanese high school campers through a 5 day camp in Japan with workshops designed to promote self-discovery and collaboration. Designed expression + entrepreneur workshop and managed logistics of workshop and summer camp. ### Senior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Taught weekly small tutoring groups through mini-lecturing and worksheet problems. Organized midterm and final exam review sessions, led family of Junior Mentors by providing a community in CSM and teaching tips. ### Junior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Teaches weekly small tutoring groups through mini-lecturing and worksheet problems. ### Research Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Worked with PhD candidate Erik Sathe to smooth data sets of flying lizard gliding performance using MATLAB software. ### Research Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Studied under Dr. Julie Elie to describe the ontogeny of vocal production in Egyptian fruit bats. Operated MATLAB software to analyze and classify thousands of vocalizations, improved accuracy of machine learning algorithms. ### Store Associate @ CVS Pharmacy Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States Cashier, stocks shelves, answers customer questions, provides excellent customer service, experience with balancing store inventory and facilitating COVID-19 vaccination process. ### Paid Curriculum Development Intern @ Supertutor Media Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States -Managed and migrated course materials, customer profiles to new online platform through backend operations. -Wrote and proofread SAT/ACT worksheets, lesson material, answered student questions related to lessons/worksheets. -Wrote weekly blogs for website and Youtube channel. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Environmental Science University of California, Berkeley ### Evergreen Valley High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christina-w-yao --- Source: https://flows.cv/christinay JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christinay/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11