# Thomas Yang

> SDE III at Amazon

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/thomasyang

portfolio and resume: https://thomas-yang.me
Github: https://github.com/rip-tyang

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, United States

### Infrastructure Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States

### Quant Developer @ Citadel
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California

### Software Engineer Intern @ LeetCode
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
LeetCode is one of the largest Online Judge in terms of code submissions. Our mission is to create the best code learning platform helping students and engineers to land their dream jobs. We have over 100 million code submissions. Check us out at https://leetcode.com.

My job includes:

- make mockups for new UI features using Sketch 
- work on React to implement bring new features

### Software Engineer Intern @ Plated
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- The first international engineer intern.
- Built a voice assistant web app for Plated, powered by Amazon Alexa and Amazon Lambda. 
--  provide hands-free voice assistance with mobile cues.
--  fast recipe navigation, recipe step readout, fast ingredient / equipment lookup.
--  works on both desktop and mobile, and also Alexa supported device like Amazon Echo.
--  support natural voice input instead of rigid voice command.
--  support account linking for Plated.com for personalization using internal API.
--  comes with a timeline to visualize recipe steps using d3.js.

### Frontend Developer @ Beijing Spark Co. Ltd.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
This is a startup who creates social networking service for entrepreneurs. 
- Refactored front end to applied MVC model using Backbone.
- Built serveral Rails models (user, question, answer, comment), setup Postgress for storage.
- Implemented login process with role based authentication.

### Co-Founder @ Beijing Giraffe Tech Co. Ltd.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Beijing, PRC
Created smart wearable devices to help users get a better sitting posture.
- Designed and built product website and applied parallel scrolling using jQuery and Semantic UI.
- Created multiple infographic views for our Android App to present users’ data on the device.
- Wrote a library to connect and synchronize data from our device to our Android App.

### Engineering Intern @ Microsoft Research, Asia
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Beijing, PRC
- Developed a graphic transition library (line interpolation, customized animation) for a data driven storytelling system based on HTML5 Canvas.
- Built a data analysis and visualization tool (timeline controls, interactive scatterplot, WYSIWYG SVG editor) for huge temporal dataset, using D3js.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Connective Media
Cornell University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Master of Science (MS) in Connective Media
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Peking University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thomas-yang-81992a79
- Website: http://thomas-yang.me
- Website: http://thomas-yang.me/assets/data/resume.pdf
- GitHub: http://github.com/Hacker-YHJ

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Source: https://flows.cv/thomasyang
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/thomasyang/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22