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Yang MA

Junior Backend Software Engineer specializing in search, data systems, and LLM applications

Bevel HealthUniversity of PittsburghNew York, NY3 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks On-Site

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Built and deployed a full-stack web product for international football fans visiting the U.S. for FIFA, owning everything from crawling and aggregating event data to frontend, backend, deployment, and maintenance. Particularly strong in data-heavy product work, using LLMs, Google Maps API, and SQL/RPC patterns to improve data quality, speed implementation, and support a polished user experience.

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Key Strengths

  • end-to-end full-stack product ownership
  • multi-source data aggregation and normalization
  • LLM-assisted data quality evaluation
  • API integration for data reliability
  • backend simplification via RPC and SQL-heavy design
  • database performance optimization
  • test-driven development mindset
  • strong UI/UX feedback during implementation
  • high responsiveness to production issues
  • autonomous execution aligned to leadership goals
  • Designed and delivered a RAG + Elasticsearch hybrid search system for contract/customer documentation retrieval
  • Strong focus on reducing hallucinations in LLM systems
  • Deep practical expertise in chunking and document preprocessing to improve retrieval quality
  • Uses hybrid retrieval with RRF and cross-encoder reranking to improve relevance
  • System design with scalability/cost considerations (customizable architecture; future local model hosting)
  • Real-time troubleshooting approach using observability traces; can reproduce issues when tracing is absent
  • Tailors technical demos to developer priorities (reliability, high concurrency) and explains tradeoffs

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Experience

Backend Software EngineerBevel Health · Dec 2025 – Feb 2026
Founding Software EngineerRouletTech · Apr 2025 – Nov 2025
Software Engineer InternKangaCook · Jan 2025 – Mar 2025internship
Software Engineer (Contractor)Urban Studio NYC · Nov 2024 – Jun 2025contract
Software & Data EngineerUniversity of Pittsburgh · Jun 2023 – Sep 2024part-time
Software Engineer InternRouletTech · Jan 2025 – Mar 2025internship

Education

University of Pittsburghmaster, Information Science (2024)
UNSW Sydneybachelor, CS & Eng. (2021)

Languages

English

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