Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) @
Tamkang University
About:
An experienced engineer adept at working on a modern software engineering team, with a firm understanding of computer science fundamentals, from object-oriented programming techniques, to common design patterns, to the ability to write clean, efficient code.
Senior Software Engineer @ •Renovated the mobile web and ADA (accessible for the vision impaired) versions of the core web application for
An experienced engineer adept at working on a modern software engineering team, with a firm understanding of computer science fundamentals, from object-oriented programming techniques, to common design patterns, to the ability to write clean, efficient code.
Senior Software Engineer @ •Renovated the mobile web and ADA (accessible for the vision impaired) versions of the core web application for a better user experience using bootstrap and the WCAG 2.0 standard.
•Designed and implemented a filter/search mechanism using Sphinx.
•Implemented cron jobs to fetch geo location data from Yahoo/Google API for integration into the core product.
•Implemented a portrait capture feature that supported legacy browsers (such as IE8), using html5, canvas, flash, and bitmap.
•Implemented UI for importing resumes from third party APIs.
•Implemented PHPunit hooked with PHPCI and Github API to automate the Unit test process when code get pushed.
•Implemented automatic backup processes for database/apache log rotation using binary backup, openSSL, Bzip2 and cron. From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) Software Developer @ • Implemented Automation Tool and wrote scripts for variety of use cases to test web pages and UI using Selenium in Java.
• Wrote crawler script to crawl the apple app store API and google play store API to update database with updated app info for business analysis usage.
• Updated the back-end and front-end code to reflect the business strategy changes. From September 2013 to November 2013 (3 months) Web Software Developer @ • Implemented a common library to standardize the A/B testing implementation, cache library, clear cache tool.
• Created internal tool to allow site admin/dev investigate a/b test version, clear cache through browser UI by using bookmarklet.
• Cooperated with team to build module framework which help other developer can easily implement to sites by calling librairy with optional config parameters.
• Built 80+sites which have similar layout and page structure but different css and content by using longtail framework.
• Built a career site using indeed.com API for testing purpose which using webtrend to track site traffic and visitor behavior.
• Migrated wordpress content by writing php script read directly wordpress database and generate xml files for importing to our CMS.
• Customized Google Minify library to make can be called from all company portfolio sites and be able to include diffrent level of common css/js.
• Used middleware to append bing tag and canonical tag in the html header to all portfolio sites in the company vertical. From February 2011 to September 2013 (2 years 8 months) Software Engineer / Web Developer @ • Developed Social network site with educational contents for teenager to proceed their career path
• Developed forum module which can be attached to any site object, using jquery- treeview plugin and slide-down function
• Created career section with search and pagination functionality allowing user to do instant search without reload the page
• Composed script file run by cron job to synchronize our site database with CMS.
• Generated auto-updated site map using cron job and curl to grab URL link as subcategory from our category page
• Developed user posts management system for site admin to edit/delete post and combined with Flag functionality for user to report improper posts by using ajax, json to update server’s database From March 2010 to November 2010 (9 months) Software Engineer @ • Developed internal purchase fulfillment system to view different vendors’ categorized product information.
• Designed and implemented a shipment tracking dashboard with bar coding technology.
• Generated revenue reports using DTS in SQL Enterprise Management and SQL query From October 2009 to February 2010 (5 months)
Master, Computer Science @ Northwestern Polytechnic University From 2007 to 2009 Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Insurance @ Tamkang University From 1998 to 2002 Nelson Yang is skilled in: jQuery, CSS, AJAX, PHP, JavaScript, JSON, SEO, XML, Databases, MySQL, HTML, RSS, CodeIgniter, Wordpress, Regular Expressions
Websites:
http://www.nelyang.com
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