Nicholas Yao

Software Engineer BE(Hons) · (021) 0283-2813 · nicholasyaoyao@gmail.com

I am a second-year software engineering student passionate about using technology to make a positive impact on the world. I enjoy learning new skills to and tackling difficult challenges to grow both as a software engineer and as a member of society.

Education

The University of Auckland

Bachelor of Engineer Honours

Software Engineering

Clubs & Societies | Student Life, Software Engineering Student Association

Second Year GPA: 9.0

First Year GPA: 8.6

Mar 2020 - Present

Macleans College

Cambridge A-Levels

Further Mathematics, English, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science

NZQA Scholarship Award 2019

Calculus (Outstanding), Statistics, Chemistry

Clubs & Societies

Coding Club, Fencing Club, Amnesty International, Bridge Club, Robotics Club

Feb 2015 - Dec 2019

Experience

Private Tutor

- Gave students tutoring on a weekly basis over Zoom.
- Evaluation of student's strengths and areas that need improvement.
- Creation of lesson plans and assigning homework according to student needs.
- Currently tutoring in Computer Science.

Feb 2021 - Present

Projects

Noodle.com

Created by our team during the WDCC x SESA Hackathon. The theme was "facilitating procrastination".
Whenever the user tries to use a productivity related website such as Wikipedia, they are redirected by a Chrome extension to Noodle.com. Noodle.com is a search engine where all the search results are useless things such as gifs, puns, and videos. Users are able to submit their own content to be added into our database as future search results.

Click here to see the Github repository for the project.

Bible Webscraper

A webscraper for biblegateway.com written in Python. It creates a PDF file of a given passage specified by the user. The PDF file only contains the original text of the manuscript - other text such as footnotes and verse numbers are removed.

Click here to see the Github repository for the project.

Achievements

Part 1 Engineering
Deans Honour List (top 5% of cohort)
Macleans College
First in Class | Computer Science
New Zealand Engineering Science Competition 2019
Member of School Team | Runner-Up
World Scholar's Cup
Auckland Regional Round | 3rd Individual | 4th Team
Sydney Global Round | Gold Medal

Volunteering

Student Life

Committed Student Leader

Student Life is a Christian organisation on university campuses throughout New Zealand, seeking to change the world by loving others and sharing with students the amazing journey that is found in following Christ.

Feb 2021 - Present

Programming Languages

Java
HTML & CSS
Javascript
Python
Bash
C
MATLAB
R
Dart & Flutter
VB.NET
SQL

Languages

English
Mandarin

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