Engineer Software

Chen Yang

Software Engineer

Cell 917-***-****

*********@*****.***

http://resume.chenyang.us/

To work in an information service company with challenging environment as a software

Developer. Looking for vertical search, social-networking, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, or semantic

web related company but not limited to work for company focusing in information technology

industry.

Education

M.S., Computer Science; New York University, New York, NY 2005-07

B.S., Computer Science; Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 2003-05

Civil Engineering; National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 1999-02

Skills

Proficient: C / C++ / objective-C / C# / Java / Perl / shell script

Preferred Platforms: Windows / MacOS / FreeBSD / Linux

Mobile Platforms: iPhone / Symbian

Natural Languages: English(Fluent), Mandarin(Native)Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer, Smart Pricing, @WalmartLabs; San Bruno, CA 7/2012 - Current

Smart Pricing team.

Software Development Engineer, Search Experience, Amazon.com; Seattle, WA 5/2011 -

7/2012

Amazon's Search Experience team. Design and implement features on Amazon search page.

Features include Visually Similar search, Mason(perl) to Java integration, Unicode/Multi-

language encoding, Lucene Chinese tokenization, Amazon mobile search page and mobile app

component.

Software Development Engineer II, Office Mobile Shared Services, Microsoft Corp.;

Redmond, WA 7/2010 - 4/2011

Microsoft Office OneNote on Symbian. Build OneNote in C++ with RVCT compiler and QML.

Software Development Engineer in Test II, Mobile Advertising eXperiences, Microsoft

Corp.; Bellevue, WA 8/2008 - 6/2010

Client:

Design and implement iPhone component testing. Develop UI, network and IDE integration

test framework with full automation on iPhone Simulator and device in objective-C.

Construct a build lab for BVT and web interface buddy build. This is done in objective-C,

Perl, and Shell script.

Server:

Design and implement Mobile Coupon Offers server API testing. Develop and implement

functional integration and database testing.

Technical Yahoo!, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Yahoo! Inc.; Sunnyvale, CA 7/2007-7/2008

Developer of linguistical canonicalization service, Yahoo! Search Marketing's core

matching technology. The service includes a standalone server that handles up to 10,000

queries per second and will serve more than 20 markets, as well as web UI, server

controller and clients in Java, Perl and C++. This project is developed in C++, Java, Perl

and shell script.

Also Contribute in listing URL bolding in Perl.

Technical Yahoo! (Intern), Yahoo! Inc.; Sunnyvale, CA 6-8/2006

Internship at International Vertical Search Group under Yahoo! Search. Develop a C/C++

test framework on API level for semantic linguistical library on BSD machine. Test the

performance in four major Asian languages as well as major European languages; study and

test the performance, tokenization quality, and consistency among languages; white box

testing for different usages.

This job is developed under C/C++ and shell script.

Honors and Awards

Gold Star Team Award,

Microsoft Corp.; Redmond, WA 2009

Research Experience

Natural Language Processing,

New York University; New York, NY 2006-07

Followed a project at Microsoft Research. Expanding Extended Name Entity dictionary by

pattern recognition and comparison in year-long New York Times corpus parsed into a

transactional persistence. This system is developed under Java.

Natural Language Processing,

New York University; New York, NY 2005-06

Primarily a year New York Times corpus was extracted into GDBM for article correlations

and mutual information. This system is developed under Java.

Search Engine Optimizer Algorithm, Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, NY 2004

Research on the ranking system of search engines, Google in particular. Use meta-tag

format, cross hyper-links and networking techniques such as virtual hosting, DNS load

balancing and so on to boost the ranking of targeting websites.

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