Hi, I'm Alex Yoon

Software Engineer | Full-Stack Developer | CS @ UCSB

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Alex Yoon

About Me

I'm a Computer Science student from the bay area with a passion for building scalable full-stack applications and solving complex technical challenges. My experience spans from AI/ML model fine-tuning to developing enterprise-grade support systems.

I'm driven by the challenge of creating impactful software that scales— currently exploring opportunities in software engineering where I can leverage my full-stack development skills and passion for performance optimization.

Education

2022 - 2026

B.S. Computer Science

University of California, Santa Barbara

Goleta, CA

Experience

Work Experience

Software Engineering Intern

BURNT AI — San Francisco, CA

July 2025 – September 2025

Worked across the full stack at an AI startup — from fine-tuning LLMs (Phi-2 with LoRA, hitting 98% accuracy) to building customer-facing dashboards tracking $110K+ in daily orders. Also shipped a GraphRAG retrieval layer that meaningfully improved catalog search precision.

Software Engineering Intern

Flow — Remote

May 2025 – July 2025

Focused on observability and infrastructure reliability — built Go/Python tooling that cut incident triage time by 28%, set up Grafana and PagerDuty alerting, and scaled telemetry pipelines with Kubernetes to reduce data latency across prod.

Software Research Assistant

Gordan Lab — San Francisco, CA

June 2023 – June 2024

Built graph-based systems to model molecular interactions and sped up compound analysis pipelines by 45% across 10,000+ compounds. Co-authored an AACR publication on HBV and kinase signaling in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Relevant Coursework

Data Structures & Algorithms Object Oriented Design Database Systems Computer Architecture Artificial Intelligence Computer Networks Operating Systems Blockchain Formal Automata Theory Probability Linear Algebra

Skills

Programming Languages

C++ C Python Java JavaScript TypeScript Rust HTML CSS SQL

Frameworks & Libraries

React Next.js FastAPI Node.js TensorFlow Spring Boot Leaflet

Developer Tools & Cloud

Git Docker Kubernetes AWS S3 Azure Google Cloud Platform VS Code PyCharm IntelliJ

Databases & APIs

PostgreSQL Redis Firebase RESTful API OpenAI Embeddings Tkinter

Projects

Completed

LiveBetter

LiveBetter

  • Built a platform ranking U.S. metros using live housing, income, and demographic data
  • Engineered a weighted scoring model incorporating taxes, cost of living, and quality-of-life metrics
  • Optimized search with caching, query tuning, and map-based exploration for a faster user experience
  • Designed responsive frontend with Next.js 14, TanStack Query, and interactive Leaflet map visualization
TypeScript Next.js React Python OpenAI API PostgreSQL TailwindCSS
C++ Parallel Processing Library

C++ Library for Parallel Data Processing

  • Built a high-performance C++ library for parallel data processing (map-reduce, sorting, aggregation), enabling up to 44% faster processing of large datasets
  • Implemented customizable thread management and chunk sizing, boosting processing efficiency by 30%
  • Added benchmarking to measure parallelization speed-ups and resource efficiency
  • Dockerized for easy testing and deployment across different environments
C++ Python Docker

In Progress

Project In Progress

Finsight

A comprehensive breakdown and history of any stock, crypto, or investement at any point in time.

Project In Progress

Podcast builder

Choose and customize your voice, and turn it into a sound masterpiece of your preference.

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Let's Connect

I'm always open to discussing new projects, creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of your vision.

Phone

925-999-6505