# Runtao Yang

> Senior Fullstack Engineer at Gartner

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/runtao

I like to develop my mind and also websites

## Work Experience
### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Gartner
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States
- Led development of internal tools, using ReactJS, Node.js, and Python, that allow users to tag and view data from various sources including third party APIs, internal web scrapers, and manually collected sources.
- Led backend development, using Node.js, for client facing interactive data visualizations for an audience of roughly 5000 subscribers.
- Contributed to migration of several backend APIs from FastAPI to Django-Graphene, and the consumers to use GraphQL queries.

### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Gartner
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
- Brainstormed architecture designs for both internal and external facing products, emphasizing security and reliability. 
- Created onboarding and mentorship plans for new frontend developers and helped them set up their machines.
- Increased overall security by identifying and correcting over 100 vulnerabilities in our existing code base.
- Implemented deprecation of server-side Node ORM in favor of raw SQL instead, decreasing Docker image size by 5%, increasing readability for backend team members, and increasing server response speed by 8%, on average.

### Frontend Engineer @ L2 inc. (acquired by Gartner)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area
- Investigated data leaks and eliminated unused variables, reducing browser CPU usage by 15%, on average.
- Evaluated performance on internal tools, and identified and optimized bottlenecks, reducing initial load time by 40% for one app. 
- Implemented standard linter rules and saved an estimated 10 hours of needless git review work by automating code conventions and rules.
- Conducted monthly user interviews to evaluate internal user workflow and provided technical details to facilitate planning new features.

### Frontend Developer @ Fresco News
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
• Maintained website code base as the company’s sole front end developer, using Express, React.js, Redux, and SASS
• Led development, design, and implementation of new story feature in the span of two months
• Communicated with backend developers and designers to achieve development goals

### JumpStart Teaching Assistant @ App Academy
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
• Presented lectures on programming concepts including data structures and enumerables
• Instructed students individually to discover areas of weakness and to help them improve

### Research Assistant @ NYU School of Medicine, Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Managed supplies in the laboratory wet laboratory materials and electrophysiological hardware. Coauthored and produced figures on two publication submissions. Conducted intra-cranial and peripheral nerve surgeries, and various behavioral tests on rodent models. Also performed brain tissue fixation and histology.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts in Biology/Biological Sciences, General
Columbia University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Web Development
App Academy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017

### HS
Canyon Crest Academy
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/runtao-yang-1a5b04119
- Website: http://runtaoyang.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-23