Alex Yuan
Howdy! I'm a 18 year old student at the University of Waterloo. I like startup culture, full-stack web development, machine learning, computer vision, and philosophy. I currently run Mergepad, a collaborative IDE for technical interviews.
I enjoy conversations so don't hesitate to reach me via email.
Experience
Founding Engineer, January 2021-Present
Remotely conduct technical interviews with a collaborative web IDE. Let your candidates compile their code in real-time. Make whiteboards a thing of the past.
mergepad.com
Software Engineer, June 2020-November 2020
Building technology to enable a global community to discover and share events, resources and projects for students.
bridgespace.io
Man of Many Hats, May 2020 - October 2020
Thoughts, stories, and ideas on rationality, culture, politics, science, and technology. Focused on diversity of ideas and the right to free expression.
oculusinventa.comEducation
A.Y. Jackson Secondary School
2016-2020
Projects
📇 Persona Personal CRM
Superhuman for contacts. Failed finding product market fit.
November 2020 - December 2020
🏃 Steps4News / Hack the Northeast
Text-to-speech Android app that reads the news to you while you exercise using Firebase
June 5, 2020 - June 7, 2020
💻 Prettier Hacker News
Engineered a Y Combinator Hacker News reader using React, Hacker News Firebase API, and Algolia REST API
June 2020 - August 2020
🍔 Bazaar / RU Hacks 2020
Coordinate purchases and transactions of goods using Django on Heroku for RU Hacks 2020
May 15, 2020 - May 17, 2020
🌐 Mozilla Location Service Globe
Illustrating connectivity hotspots around the world, powered by the WebGL Globe framework
February 21, 2020
😷 Coronaglobe
3D globe visualization of COVID-19 cases around the world using Google WebGL Globe Toolkit and Python
February 11, 2020
🧮 EquationSpace
Project was noticed by Desmos engineering team and commented "it's a very cool high school project"
December 2019 - January 2020
🚘 Road Image Segmentation w/ Encoder-Decoder Network
October 2019
📈 NLP for Stock Market Prediction
Predict stock market fluctuations from word embeddings with Word2Vec and scikit-learn
October 2019
💳 Credit Card Fraud Detector
TSNE model to detect credit card fraud using scikit-learn
September 2019
🚘 Lane Detection Using Colour Spaces
Detects lane lines using colour space filtering and regression using OpenCV and NumPy
January 2019
📅 SemesterShare
Timetable sharing platform using React and the Material-UI framework
December 2018 - June 2020