Lesley Chang

Location: San Francisco, California, US

WORK EXPERIENCE

Collaborated with CTO to build three new products from the ground up: Directs, Faktor, and Clockwork. This involved defining the features, designing the interface, building the feature, and monitoring the performance through metrics.
Defined core development workflows and practices that improved the speed and quality of releases for the engineering team.
Built apps using test-driven development (TDD) and domain-driven design (DDD) models. Wrote integration tests using Playwright and Cypress.
Used TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, Jest, Express, PostgreSQL, AWS

Ripplink | Founding Software Engineer

Built a cross-platform mobile app professional networking tool, used by over 100 investors.
Led mobile app development and established standard code style guides and Flutter/Dart development practices.
Implemented background workers to generate insight data from users’ networking data on LinkedIn, Gmail, and SMS.
Used Flutter/Dart, Python, GCP, AWS

Spearheaded the development of core mobile features, increasing downloads by 50% in the first 6 months.
Planned features and delegated tasks to a small team of contractor engineers to complete a prototype of a consumer software product.
Built a highly available task queue for the purpose of refreshing auth tokens, syncing statistics, and sending push notifications by leveraging an GCP-based architecture.
Used Flutter/Dart, TypeScript, Nest.js, GraphQL, Redis, Google Cloud Platform

B.A. Data Science, Domain Emphasis in Psychology

Relevant courses: Algorithms & Intractable Problems, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Extracurriculars: Beta Alpha Psi Vice President, Head of Professional Development, and Pledge Advisor

Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, HTML/CSS, Nest.js, Express, SQL, Rust, Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django/Flask

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, Linux

User Interface & User Experience (UI/UX) Design, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Gaming (Apex Legends, Street Fighter 6), R&B Music, Cats, Weightlifting/Bodybuilding

Built a web app for a commercial cleaning company to manage payroll, used by 200+ cleaners and managers over 2+ years.
Created PostgreSQL triggers and functions to handle user registration and update payroll reports.
Used TypeScript, React, Next.js, Express, PostgreSQL, AWS, Clerk

Built a search engine for Solana developers to browse open-source projects and resources
Used TypeScript, React, Next.js, Emotion, Express, PostgreSQL, AWS