Career Profile
Hi there :) I am Qifan Yang, and I am pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Actively looking for a new-grad SDE position where I can utilize my 5 years of CS experience in backend developing and/or networking after my graduation in May 2023.
I had a solid foundation and gained more experience in fundamental or low-level CS branches, such as networking, operating systems, and databases.
Previous member of Leaf, a startup team developing note-taking software that aims to speed up the input with the help of deep learning from lecture materials. Also was a member of the tech-dev section of Georgia Tech China Student and Scholar Association (GTCSSA) and the software we developed has benefited hundreds of new Tech students to get familiar with the campus and surroundings. During my internship at ADP, the backend service that I built for a client data questionnaire will be used and deployed in the real production environment.
Education
Highest Honor for Bachelor’s degree at Georgia Tech. Faculty Honors for 4 semesters (Fall 2019 to Fall 2020, and Fall 2021) and Dean’s List Honor for Spring 2021.
Activities and societies: Member of GTCSSA, Big Data, Big Impact club and WebDev club; Participated in HackGTeeny 2019.Activities and societies: Member of GTCSSA, Big Data, Big Impact club and WebDev club; Participated in HackGTeeny 2019.
Experiences
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) of CS 3251, Computer Networking I, in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. The course is an introduction to problems in computer networking, including error recovery, medium access, routing, flow control, and transport. Responsible for designing and grading written/programming assignments and holding weekly Q&A sessions (office-hour).
- Developed a microservice backend of client data questionnaire for database operations and user profile verification and integrated the service with the other three microservices in the production environment with Groovy, Spring Boot, Axon Server, MongoDB, and GraphQL.
- Experienced in software engineering process in business production. Managed the project by Maven, tested by Spock, deployed with Jenkins, and developed under the Scrum framework.
- Collaborated with the intern implementing the frontend side to design a data storage structure and REST APIs and conducted final testing.
- The new service decreases the workload of district managers, reducing the communication between D.M. and clients by 30%.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) of ECE 2031, Digital Design Lab, with Dr. Thomas Collins and Dr. Kevin Johnson in Spring 2021. The course involves designing and implementing of digital systems by utilizing project design methodologies, logic synthesis, and assembly language programming. Responsible for holding office hours and completing project check-offs.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) of CS 1331, Intro to Object-Oriented Programming, with Dr. Olufisayo Omojokun in Fall 2020. The course involves basic techniques and methods of object-oriented programming such an encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Responsible for holding weekly recitations and office hours.