About

I am Gabriel Yang. Computer Science Junior in the National University of Singapore.

Growth fuels me as I prize stepping beyond comfort zones and embracing transformative experiences. Education earns you a living, but personal development earns you a lifetime. I prioritize character development as much as technical aptitude as I've realized that an organization's true assets are its people.

I'm driven by the tangible positive impact I make and I am interested in building technology that can genuinely help people who are less privileged than me. Everything that I am doing serves to fulfill that goal.

Basic Information
Age:
22
Email:
gabrielyang@u.nus.edu
1gabrielyang1@gmail.com
Phone:
+1 (650) 642 7044
+65 9626 2355
Address:
191 Eastmoor Avenue, Daly City, CA 94015
Language:
English, Mandarin
Education
National University of Singapore
National Univeristy of Singapore
Aug 2021 – Present

Year 3 Computer Science Student

  • VIP Award Recipient
  • Teaching Assistant – Programming Methodology 1, Programming Methodology 2
  • Notable Courses – Object-oriented and Functional Programming, Software Engineering, Database Systems, Computer Networks, Technical Management and Leadership
  • Clubs – Project Director in Social Impact Catalyst, Insight Writer in Global Research Consulting, Raffles Hall
  • Stanford University
    Stanford Univeristy
    Jan 2023 – Aug 2023

    SCPD - Business

  • Notable Course – MS&E472: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
  • St Andrew's Junior College
    St Andrew's Junior College
    Jan 2017 – Dec 2018

    Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Advanced Level

  • Jacob Ballas Scholars’ Award
  • Founding Member of Handball Club - sourced for a coach and got the school to certify the club, competed in National Youth Handball League 2018.
  • Work Experience
    Workstream
    Full-Stack Software Engineering Intern @ Workstream
    Jan 2023 – Present

    Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, ReactJS, Typescript, Segment, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, HTML & CSS, Docker, Kubernetes, Snowflake, AWS Elasticsearch, AWS S3, Radiant on Shiny, SQL

    Backend

    - Completely revamped old notifications system and built new notifications systems for new features. Designed and built notification toggles to improve user experience. Increased engagement by about 20%, calculated based on click rates of emails.
    - Built complex query pipelines in the new microservice that the team built
    - Built HTML email and SMS templates on Embedded Ruby

    Frontend

    - Worked on the mono repository with NX. Building simple edit, search, filter capabilities.

    Security

    - Remediated 10 critical and 30 high priority vulnerabilities in various repositories.
    - Enforced new security measures against generative AI prompt hacking in Workstream’s new AI product.

    Data Science

    - Building a predictive hiring model for customer scale to increase engagement of users. Using SQL to query Snowflake for 6 million rows of unstructured data and analysing it with Radiant on Shiny.

    Koios
    Part-time Software Developer @ Koios
    Sep 2022 – Nov 2022

    ReactJS, NestJS

  • Agile Workflow – Bug Testing and Fixing on the application
  • New feature implementation – Make-up classes
  • I'm Friendly Co
    Part-time Frontend Developer @ I'm Friendly Co
    July 2022 – Sep 2022

    ReactJS, Google Analytics

  • Reworked various components with padding and margins to make the UI and UX more visually appealing. Integrated Google analytics. Did sprints of 1 week increments before Web Publication in September.
  • Extra Curriculars
    EzCompostr
    Co-Founder
    Dec 2021 – Present

    Start-up Business Summary: We aim to simplify and redefine how society views food waste with a software application to encourage and motivate households to repurpose their food waste together.

  • Software - Conducting market validation building a mobile application with about 50+ users for now
  • Hardware - Made a 3D-printed handheld compost bin. This bin can solve the 3 main friction points: odour, convenience and getting people started.
  • Hosted webinars and workshops with over 700+ participants in total, connecting experts with enthusiasts. Built a facebook group with over 400 members.
  • UC Berkeley
    Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley Chem 1A
    Aug 2023 – Present

    Building an AI tool to help students learn at their level, detailed by the Copenhagen Consensus as one of the most important problems to solve in education.

    Working with Professor Mark Kubinec in Chemistry and Professor Dan Garcia in Computer Science.

    Aspire AI
    Co-Founder @ Aspire AI
    Aug 2023 – Present

    Building a learning tuition system to increase accessibility of education for students. Received $10k in grant from the Singapore government to build the solution to the problem. We are offering a 1-to-1 tutoring solution for students.

    RHdevs
    Developers Club @ Raffles Hall
    Aug 2021 – Aug 2022
  • Converted a SQL to a No-SQL database using MongoDB and Flask.
  • Improved query time by reordering indexes. Overall improvement speed-up of web application about 10% through changes in the database.
  • Administrated and ran a Hackathon
  • Raffles Hall
    Hall Administrator @ Raffles Hall Leader
    Aug 2021 – Aug 2022

    Managing a team with 3 main responsibilities – Webpage, Hardware Networking and Database.

  • Webpage – General maintenance. Interpret analytics and edit elements based on the flow of traffic.
  • Hardware Networking – Server and storage maintenance. Spearheaded efforts to decentralise server to prevent over-reliance of old technology, reduce crash rate of computers to 0% during server outage.
  • Database – Used PHP and ApacheDB to upgrade registration processes. Improved convenience of Hall leaders by an additional a feature to view hall points, reduced registration process from 4 days to 3 days.
  • Portfolio