Xiao Yang

Full-Stack & AI Engineer

MS Computer Science

Northeastern, Silicon Valley

Seeking SWE internship, Summer 2027

I used to design buildings.

Now I build software.

Things I keep coming back to:

  • running LLMs on my own machine
  • small tools that do one thing well
  • agents that do real work w/o hand-holding
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Experience

  1. Research Assistant

    NEURAI Lab — YouDescribe

    Jun 2026 — PresentSan Jose, CA

    Develop and maintain youdescribe.org across the frontend and backend, and contribute to the AI pipeline that generates audio descriptions for blind and low-vision viewers.

  2. Contract Full-Stack Developer

    Fun de Mental — E-commerce Site

    Aug 2026 — PresentRemote, US

    Building a headless Shopify storefront with Next.js, covering product catalog, cart, and checkout for a metal EDC brand.

Selected Work

Three projects worth digging into

Illustration of a PDF page squeezed into a smaller one that fits the target size

Xompress

Shrinks a 100 MB design portfolio to an exact target size.

Element-level decision engine — images recompressed, text layers left untouched.

PythonFastAPINext.js

Jun – Jul 2026

Illustration of a ranked daily digest rising out of an envelope, with unread articles drifting in

Medium Daily Digest

A daily LLM pipeline that reads my Medium feed and emails back a scored Top 10.

A cost-shaped funnel: embeddings filter first, a local 4B screens next, the frontier model runs last.

PythonClaude APIOllama

Mar – Jun 2026

Illustration of five tarot cards fanned from a ring of 78, the front card showing the Sun

Tarot with Local AI

A 78-card tarot web app with readings streamed from a fully local LLM.

Drag to spin the ring, pick four cards and their orientation; nothing ever leaves the machine.

ReactTypeScriptFastAPI

Jun – Jul 2026

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