Jane Yang is a principal software engineer who specialises in the design, development, testing and deployment of modern software services including web services, APIs and distributed computing systems. Driven by her experiences when studying Computer Science at university where she was one of only a handful of female students, Jane is passionate about improving diversity in computer science and encouraging more women to embark upon careers in software engineering and data science.
Jane has deep expertise of designing and developing high-performance, resilient, test-driven and user-centered software services, and scalable and secure APIs, supporting a wide variety of systems including e-commerce websites, audio recognition and semantic data integration. Jane is also an active contributor to open-source software projects and advocates for the design and development of interoperable, extensible, vendor-agnostic and open-by-default software services. In addition to her software engineering expertise, Jane is also a keen graphic designer and content developer covering both technical and non-technical subject matters.