Hi, I'm Joshua Young

Resume

About Me

I am a software engineer with a background in large scale data processing systems and analytics. I also have an interest in machine learning and robotics.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Java Python C++ C C# SQL XAML HTML/CSS Bash

Operating Systems & Environments

Windows Linux MacOS

Development Tools

AWS Xcode Git Visual Studio Visual Studio Code

Work Experience

Software Engineer

Google Sep. 2022 - Present Palo Alto, CA
  • Generated business-critical metrics for A/B experimentation analysis across Google Play
  • Developed scalable data processing pipelines to analyze hundreds of terabytes of user logs daily
  • Optimized query performance and data availability for databases while remaining privacy compliant
  • Collaborated across teams to create a machine-learning based platform for exploring new user insights

Software Development Intern

Amazon Jun. 2021 - Sep. 2021 Palo Alto, CA
  • Designed machine learning model in Python for generating universal code representations
  • Wrote training pipeline to perform software decomposition using AWS Sagemaker and S3
  • Improved upon existing manual analysis tools to provide automated and more detailed suggestions
  • Built cloud native service to perform model training and inference on user applications
  • Created visualization tool to view model progress during training and results using NetworkX

Software Development Intern

Amazon Jun. 2020 - Sep. 2020 Palo Alto, CA
  • Designed testing framework for simulating customer sessions to improve search relevancy
  • Implemented functions to analyze machine learning model performance in Python
  • Leveraged AWS Athena, Lambda, and S3 to query log files for test cases in SQL
  • Created visualization tool to compare different model input types using Tensorflow Projector

Software Engineering Intern

Brooks Automation Jun. 2019 - Sep. 2019 Fremont, CA
  • Developed user interface in C# using Windows Presentation Foundation and MVVM architecture
  • Wrote Swagger API methods for Apache web server hosted on Raspberry Pis in Python
  • Handled HTTP requests to store and retrieve information from databases in SQL
  • Integrated log collector to aggregate data from all microcontrollers in network

My Projects

Sincerely, AI

Machine Learning Project to Identify Insincere Text

  • Used machine learning to identify insincere text
  • Implemented Django back-end to interface with machine learning model using Python
  • Created Chrome extension and Twilio app front-end using HTML/CSS and JavaScript
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Up2Date

News Alert Chrome Extension

  • Built Chrome extension to send user queries in HTML/CSS and JavaScript
  • Set up Django back-end server to store queries on Firebase database in Python
  • Utilized Bing News Search API to alert user to relevant news based on query
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