Enjoy programming, learning, collaboration and challenges. LANGUAGES: JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Python, GraphQL, SQL. LIBRARIES & FRAMEWORKS: React, Tailwind [CSS], Emotion [CSS in JS], Backbone, Apollo [GraphQL], MySQL, Node, Express, Inquirer, D3, Bootstrap, Materialize, OAuth. TOOLS: Git, Yarn, NPM, Bash.

2021 — NowPantheon PlatformSenior Software Engineer

2021 — Now

2018 — 2021Pantheon PlatformSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2021

San Francisco Bay Area

Take charge of planning and implementing frontend work for new features in the squad, collaborating with backend engineers to design suitable APIs, communicating with designer for design handoff and UI questions.

Work on new dashboard, to create new features, and also adapt old dashboard features to new dashboard (React, Apollo [GraphQL]).

Maintain old dashboard in Backbone, add new features in React, and refactor old Backbone features to React (React, Backbone).

Create new components in design system/toolkit, being used in new dashboard and old dashboard (React, Emotion [CSS in JS], Storybook).

2018 — 2018Pantheon PlatformSoftware Engineer Intern

2018 — 2018

Modernized frontend: refactored Backbone and CoffeeScript to React on user dashboard (with five different views for the tab).

Wrote tests for React components.

Won the first place at Pantheon Hackweek with the PoC project (building new feature of NavBar Announcement).

Analyzed thousands rows of business intelligence data, used MySQL to discover edge cases among related tables and connections between different tables.

2018 — 2018TechtonicaSoftware Engineer Apprentice

2018 — 2018

San Francisco Bay Area

6 months software engineering program, focusing on algorithm, data structures, and computer science fundamentals.

Built full-stack web applications with JavaScript, MySQL, and the MERN stack: MongoDB, Express, React, Node.

VIZTORY - 2018 (https://github.com/zzyou/visual-housing-price)

(https://viztory.herokuapp.com/)

Created a data visualization application to show house price change from 1975 to 2017.

Built with Node, Express, MySQL, React, D3, Materialize, OAuth.

Built components from scratch, including D3 bar charts.

Features include customized bar chart animation according to different year, state level data and city level data.

Cleaned and analyzed 16000+ rows of house price index data.

WALL OF WISDOM - 2018 (https://github.com/zzyou/techtonica-quotes)

Created a quotes publishing application to share inspirational quotes within the community. Built with Node, Express, MongoDB, Bootstrap, EJS, jQuery.

Ideated a mobile responsive single page navigation web app that allows users to post inspiration quotes.

Led a group of three peers to scope down the project, build features, and fix bugs.

Built features such as input flow, user feedback, and animated carousel of quotes.

Used Git and GitHub to streamline teamwork, version control, and code reviews.

REACT CALCULATOR - 2018 (https://github.com/zzyou/calculator-react)

Created a calculator application with React.

Built components from scratch, including buttons, input box and animations.

Based on the previous project jQuery Calculator, translated jQuery code to React code, and polished the operation function to cover edge cases.

Features include consecutive operations, operations on negative numbers and decimals.

2016 — 2016MotherCodersWeb Development Trainee

2016 — 2016

San Francisco Bay Area

8 weeks hands on web development program, focusing on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Skills based workshops on UX, design thinking, prototyping, Git, and web applications security taught by industry leaders from tech companies.

Education

Purdue University

Master's degree

Renmin University of China

Master's degree

Renmin University of China

Bachelor's degree

Codecademy

JavaScript

freeCodeCamp

Full Stack Web Development Certification

Coursera

Experience+

Education

Master's degree

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

JavaScript

Full Stack Web Development Certification

Python