Chen (Jerry) Yang

Current

Software Development Engineer in Test at MSN
Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft

Past

Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo! Search Marketing
Technical Yahoo! (Intern) / Yahoo! Search Technology at Yahoo!

Education

New York University
State University of New York at Stony Brook
National Taiwan University

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Chen (Jerry) Yang’s Summary

To work in a information service company with challenging environment as a Java/C/C++ Developer. Interested in internet marketing platform, vertical search, social-networking, Web 2.0, or semantic web related company but also not limited to work for other companies in information technology industry.

Chen (Jerry) Yang’s Specialties:

Proficient: C/C++/C#/objective-C/Java/shell script/Perl
Preferred Platforms: Windows/MacOS/FreeBSD/Linux
Natural Languages: English, Mandarin

Chen (Jerry) Yang’s Experience

Software Development Engineer in Test

MSN

(Public Company; MSFT; Online Media industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

See descrpition at Microsoft.
Software Development Engineer in Test

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

Design and implement test plans as well as utilities on various platforms. Execute unit testing, fuzz testing, scenario testing, functional and boundary error testing, performance and stress testing on various devices.

Construct a build lab with Build-Verification-Test ability in shell script with Apache enhancement.
Technical Yahoo!

Yahoo! Search Marketing

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Developer of linguistical canonicalization service, Yahoo! Search Marketing’s core matching technology. The service includes a standalone server handles up to 10,000 queries per second and serves more than 20 markets. This service is developed in C++, Java, Perl and shell script. Also Contribute in listing URL bolding in Perl.
Technical Yahoo! (Intern) / Yahoo! Search Technology

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)

Developed a C/C++ test framework on API level for semantic linguistical library on FreeBSD machine. Tested the performance for four major Asian languages and many European languages; studied and tested the performance and the tokenization quality and consistency among the languages; white box testing for different usages.

Chen (Jerry) Yang’s Education

New York University

Master of Science , Computer Science , 2005 — 2007

Work on various projects including co-relations, mutual information, extended name entity expansion with pattern recognition from Microsoft Research and WordNet similarity. Most of the corpus are year-long New York Times and the development environment is in J2SE, J2EE and shell script.
State University of New York at Stony Brook

Bachelor of Science , Computer Science , 2003 — 2005

Transferred from National Taiwan Univ.

Activities and Societies:

NSCS
National Taiwan University

Civil Engineering 1999 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

root of eMBA server, sysop of Ptt3, root of fluid mechanics lab, contributor of several open source projects

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Chen (Jerry) Yang’s Interests:

Baseball, New York Yankees, Computer Programming, Java, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, ,globalization, novel, fiction, poetry, history, politics, Philosophy of Mind, Foucault, postcolonialism, postmodernism