Alvin Yu
Experienced with Generative AI chatbots, Cloud Computing (OpenShift and AWS), Full Stack Development (including UI/UX design)
Previous Experience
Software Engineering Intern
Red Hat · Internship
May 2025 - Present · 4 mos
Boston, Massachusetts, United States · On-site
Developed AI agents with tool-calling capabilities to analyze data and generate actionable metrics. Additionally, transformed the chatbot into a full-stack web application, applying UX design principles to enhance user experience.
Projects
8Knot (Dashboard)
May 2025 - Present
Associated with Red Hat
Helped design a responsive and modern UI frontend to 8Knot. 8Knot is a data visualization platform for analyzing open source community health
Aureole (Metrics Chatbot)
May 2025 - Present
Associated with Red Hat
Generative AI chatbot with tool calling for analyzing open-source community health metrics.
UniBot (UMass Lowell Chatbot)
Jun 2024 - Present
Associated with University of Massachusetts Lowell
Generative AI chatbot that is able to answer questions about the University of Massachusetts Lowell using RAG on a vector database. Uses multithreaded ingestion to store precomputing vector embeddings
UniPath.io
Sep 2023 - Present
Associated with University of Massachusetts Lowell
Building course catalog backend using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and DynamoDB for UniPath.io, an open source web application designed to help college students plan and visualize their academic journey.
Financial News Sentiment Analysis
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Associated with University of Massachusetts Lowell
Our project aims to assist financial firms through the sentiment classification of financial news headlines using Support Vector Machines.