Angela Yu
Founder And Managing Director at London App Brewery
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAngela Yu is a software engineer in London with ten years of experience and a background as a medical doctor turned developer. As founder of the App Brewery she has taught over 2,000,000 students how to code, combining clear pedagogy with product instincts. Her open-source contributions show a focus on practical, secure backend engineering—implementing bcrypt, Passport, sessions, encrypted secrets and environment-variable handling for a widely used bootcamp authentication module. She brings clinical attention to detail and a teacher’s mindset to building reliable, production-ready web systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Neuroscience (Hon), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Neuroscience (Hon) at University College London, U. of LondonBristol Grammar School
Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (19)
mongoose10
javascript10
node-js10
user-authentication10
authentication10
mongodb-database10
security10
javascripts10
passport-js10
express-js10
mongodb10
bcrypt10
session-management9
api-doc9
cookies9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
londonappbrewery/Authentication-Secrets
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Companion Code for the Authentication Module on The Complete 2019 Web Development Bootcamp
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
Contributions summary:Angela contributed to the authentication module, focusing on backend development. They implemented encryption using Mongoose plugins, integrated environment variables for secrets, and refactored the code to use bcrypt for secure password hashing. The user also integrated sessions and cookies using Express.js middleware, along with setting up Passport for local authentication using Mongoose. They further extended functionality to allow users to submit their secrets.
companionweb-developmentauthentication
londonappbrewery/Destini
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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