About Me

Welcome to my tiny space and I appreciate you spending time to get to know me!

My name is Ann Yang, born in a beautiful water town called Jinan in China. I spent 17 years there being the "perfect" kid: excellent performance in school, popular among friends, obedient to teachers and parents, tons of hobbies and not bad at any. I played violin and won multiple awards, I danced, sang, painted, or anything you could name. My whole life has been planned out and people say I'm lucky and set for life.

Going into college, I decided to apply for school in foreign countries, far away from parents to pursue my own identity. Until today, I haven't regretted that decision.

I got my bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada, which is a top engineering school around the world. As a specialty offered by the school, I was part of a co-op program and interned at 5 different companies throughout my 5 year undergraduate study. After graduation, I returned to my last internship and joined LinkedIn in Silicon Valley.

Now I'm designing software in the daytime, dancing, playing music or gym at night. I try to volunteer to help out the homeless on the weekends so I remind myself the tech bubble I'm in. I strongly recommend "Food on Foot" which is an organization that serves meals to hundreds of homeless people in Beverly Hills, California regardless of sun or rain.

One thing that hasn't changed about me is I love everything adventurous. I did equestrian jumping; Roman and Leo are my two favorite horses and I miss them so much. I always dreamed about being a bird so I started my paragliding journey and on my way to get P2 certified! I love solo traveling. I have done Korea, Japan, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and various places in the U.S. alone and met tons of interesting souls along the way. There are so many more places I've planned!

I have passion in fashion and beauty so I'm always excited talking about them with anyone. I have various styles depending on the occasion and currently I'm designing my own dancing outfit brand with my best friend.

I have a puppy boy. He is a Finnish Spitz so I gave him a Scandinavian name "Skoll" meaning "cheers!" or "a wolf that's chasing after the sun". That's him in the picture with me.

I use Instagram as a journal. Let's connect!