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Helen Yau

San Francisco, CA

415-994-8889

[email protected]

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-yau     GitHub: https://github.com/helenyau0

LANGUAGES AND TECHNOLOGIES

Proficient: JavaScript, ES6, React.js, Redux, Node.js, Express, SQL PostgreSQL, Mocha, Chai, jQuery, HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS3, Sass, Git, Test Driven Development (TDD)
Exposure: GraphQL, Continuous Intergration

VOLUNTEER

Women Who Code | Event Lead | San Francisco, CA Aug 2018 - present

  • Co-host an Algorithms & Interview prep meetup that's bi-weekly.
  • Create problem sets and worksheets for meetup.
  • Reach out to companies to create partnership for hosting future events.
  • Logistics and organizing of events.

EXPERIENCE

Learners Guild | Oakland, CA Nov 2016 - Feb 2018

  • A 10 month immersive web development and software engineering training program focusing on Javascript, Node.js, PostgresQL, CSS, HTML, and React.
  • Worked collaboratively in agile teams to ship quality code per week.
  • Strong development focuses on: Server side scripting, RESTful APIs, Test driven development (TDD), version control, and improvement of UI.
  • Worked on live code bases with the idea in mind of improving user experience under a leading engineer.
  • Utilized agile methodologies by attending daily stand ups and pair programing.
  • Participated in peer code reviews.

PROJECTS

Roam | Live | code

A travel community for users to share tips about their favorite locations around the world.

  • Practiced scrum agile development managing daily standups, pair programming, and Git workflow.
  • Implemented Passport to authenticate user logins, providing a secure experience.
  • Allowed users to upload photos by integrating Uploadcare widget.
  • Redesigned UI/UX to have a responsive layout by utilizing Bootstrap 4, HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript.

Vinyl | Live | code

A community for record enthusiasts to review their favorite albums.

  • Engineered PostgreSQL database to store album reviews and user data.
  • Integrated session based authentication with Passport.
  • Designed UI/UX following given wireframes using Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap.
  • Constructed Express RESTful API to handle user reviews, deployed platform to Heroku.

TwitBot | code

A tweet regenerator that retweets on a given interval and automatically saves to the database for future access.

  • Utilized Twitter's API to query for hashtags that are popular or most recent for retweeting.
  • Designed PostgreSQL database to store most recent tweets.
  • Created an in-browser interface for easy to click retweeting or deleting.
  • Built RESTful API to automate posting and saving tweets.

EDUCATION

  • City College of San Francisco, Chemistry 2015
  • Learners Guild, Full-stack web development 2018
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