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Yana
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01 / about

About me

Hi! I'm Yana, a Software Engineer building smart solutions that solve real world problems. I'm pursuing a double major in CS and AI and a minor in Business Economics at Purdue University.

02 / skills

What I work with

Languages
ML / AI
Web / Backend
Infra / Cloud
LLM / Agents
Languages
Python Java JavaScript C / C++ SQL
ML / AI
PyTorch scikit-learn NumPy Pandas ChromaDB Qiskit Survival Analysis
Web / Backend
React Flask FastAPI Node.js REST APIs
Infra / Cloud
AWS Docker GitHub Actions CI / CD Lambda CloudWatch
LLM / Agents
LangChain Ollama RAG Pipelines LLM Orchestration AST Parsing AI Agent Workflows
03 / experience

Where I've worked

QUICKSCRUM
QuickScrum
Software Engineering Intern
CURRENT
stay tuned for future updates!
SMARTANT
Smartant Technologies
AI Instructor & Consultant
CURRENT
stay tuned for future updates!
J&J
Johnson & Johnson
Data Scientist
  • Built cancer survivability models trained on Project Data Sphere clinical trial data to inform treatment recommendations for oncology patients
VPWA
Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa
Software Developer
  • Built and deployed a child sponsorship platform serving 10,000+ annual beneficiaries, complete with an automated pipeline that sends donors personalized updates on the specific children they support
PURDUE
Purdue University
Quantum Computing Researcher
  • Wrote a balanced binary tree search in C for QUBO clustering, cutting lookup time 30% across 90+ datasets
  • Simulated Hawking radiation on Qiskit across 10+ qubit systems, providing computational evidence for quantum information effects at the boundary of black hole thermodynamics — presented at PURC 2024 and 2025
STEMHER
STEMher
Program Director, India
  • Designed and deployed a Python curriculum spanning 100+ concepts across 70 workshops in 14 countries, reaching 1,500+ underprivileged girls
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04 / projects

Things I've built

RepoMind
RepoMind
Agentic AI codebase intelligence system to help new devs onboard to large repos.
PythonFastAPItree-sitterChromaDBOllamaLangChain
FlowFuel
2ND · INNOVATEHER 2025
FlowFuel
Personalised AI-powered nutrition app that recommends women meals to eat at what dining halls on Purdue's campus according to the phase of their monthly cycle.
ReactFlaskNode.jsGROQREST APIs
GitPatch
GitPatch
Patch management CLI tool generating AI powered summaries for better code review and reuse.
PythonAWS S3LambdaOpenAI APICloudWatch
Shell
Shell
Unix-like shell from scratch in C++ with job control, pipelines, background execution, subshells, wildcard expansion, tab completion, and command history.
C++Bashflexbison
Malloc
Malloc
Custom dynamic memory allocator (DLMalloc-inspired) implementing malloc, free, and realloc using segregated free lists, boundary tags, and constant-time coalescing.
CSystemsMemory Management
05 / coursework & certs

What I've studied

Core CS
CS 180 · Programming I CS 182 · Foundations of CS CS 211 · Competitive Programming CS 240 · Programming in C CS 250 · Computer Architecture CS 251 · Data Structures & Algorithms CS 252 · Systems Programming CS 381 · Analysis of Algorithms
Machine Learning & AI
CS 373 · Data Mining & Machine Learning CS 471 · Artificial Intelligence
Mathematics
MA 265 · Linear Algebra I MA 351 · Linear Algebra II
Humanities & Social Sciences
ECON 251 · Microeconomics ECON 252 · Macroeconomics ECON 301 · Intermediate Microeconomics POL 327 · Global Green Politics COM 217 · Public Speaking SOC 220 · Intro to Sociology SCLA 101 · Transformative Texts
Certifications
Google · Machine Learning Crash Course Anthropic · Introduction to MCP
06 / contact
Let's build something

Open to any opportunities where I can contribute with a real world impact. Feel free to look at my work and reach out anytime!