Yulin Zheng

| yulinzheng25@gmail.com

Education

University of California, Berkeley

B.A. & M.S. in Computer Science

Relevant coursework:

CS 168: Internet Architecture and Protocols CS 186: Intro to Database Systems
CS 169: Software Engineering CS 189: Machine Learning
CS 170: Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems INFO 159: Natural Language Processing

2012-2018

Experience

AnotherMind.ai

Backend Engineer

  • Collaborated with the frontend team on building a web app using React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
  • Implemented social features like notifications, comments, follow/unfollow, content sharing, etc.
  • Integrated third-party APIs for adding functionalities like token streaming and recurring payments.

Jun 2023 - Present

Yupaw, Inc

Self-Employed

Took a three-year hiatus from my career to pursue passions beyond building cool products.

  • Snowboarding
  • Real Estate
  • Shiba Community:
    • built a product review web app for local Shiba owners.
    • raised awareness of chylothorax (a serious condition that the Shiba Inu breed is predisposed to).
    • participated in a research study on idiopathic chylothorax conducted by UC Davis.

Apr 2020 - May 2023

Test.ai

Backend Engineer

  • Collaborated with the frontend team on building a web app using React, Flask, MySQL, and GCP.
  • Integrated Alembic for database migrations and Firebase for user authentication.
  • Wrote internal documentations on running the dev server and testing API responses.

Dec 2019 - Mar 2020

Compliance.ai

Software Engineer

  • Wrote a data loader to stream compliance notices with varied file formats into Prodigy, an annotation tool.
  • Created training data for a named-entity recognition (NER) task using Prodigy’s entity recommendation model.
  • Trained the custom entity recognizer using spaCy, a Python NLP library. Maintained model over time.
  • Worked on data visualization tasks and integrated responsive charts into existing UI components.

Apr 2018 - Oct 2019

Virtual Reality at Berkeley

Co-Founder

  • Introduced team members to VR/AR concepts, 3D game design and development principles using Unity and C#.
  • Developed VR/AR games and applications for various on/off-campus events (Halloween, Cal Day, Oculus Connect).
  • Grew total members of VR at Berkeley from 7 to 200+ students.
  • Project videos:

Jun 2015 - Dec 2016

LinkedIn

Software Engineer Intern

May - Aug 2016

UC Berkeley, EECS Department

Undergraduate Student Instructor

  • Introduced students to CS concepts and programming paradigms with Python.
  • Wrote tutorials, labs, discussion notes, and exams using LaTeX and Markdown.
  • Maintained Bash and Python scripts for project auto-graders.
  • Mentored first-time CS Teaching Assistants.
  • Course websites:
    • CS 61A - Introduction to Programming
    • CS 70 - Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory
    • CS 375 - Teaching Techniques for Computer Science

Jun 2015 - Aug 2016

Projects

Shiba Nearby

  • A single-page app built for my local Shiba owners community

Color Palette Generator

  • A Python script that generates a color palette based on an given image
  • Uses k-means clustering to extract the dominant colors
  • Uses OpenCV and NumPy for image processing and geometric transformations

Cachet

  • A chrome extension that:
    • captures and saves user-highlighted text from a webpage
    • allows search and retrieval of all previously saved content

If It Fits (in progress)

  • A VR 3D puzzle game built for Oculus Quest 2
  • Inspired by cubism

Credentials

    AASI Level 1 Snowboard Instructor

    • Acquired my L1 certificate on April 8, 2021.
    • Worked at Burton Academy (Northstar, Lake Tahoe) during the 21/22 snow season.

    Real Estate Professional (2022)

    • Spent 750+ hours in real estate activities in 2022.
    • Oversaw the execution of three construction projects:
      • 4/2020 - 4/2022: expansion and renovation of an existing residential property
      • 1/2021 - 1/2022: construction of a new residential property
      • 6/2022 - 1/2023: rehabilitation of a duplex rental unit (upped cap rate to 7.7%)