Karen Liu

👋 I'm a software engineer with over 10 years of industry experience in front-end web development, currently based in NYC. Thanks for visiting!

Work Experience

Food tech startup that's still in stealth mode 🍔 I hope to share more details soon!

Architected web front-ends such as the studio online booking and newsfeed platform, CRM, targeted email marketing landing page, and business dashboard
Implemented purchase flow within iframe to allow users to book on Zenrez without leaving the studio website, which enabled the design of a custom pricing algorithm developed at Harvard Business School, increasing average studio revenue by 13%
Established eng team processes such as linting, testing, deploying, URL routing, data fetching/caching, analytics tracking, error tracking, bundle late-loading
Prototyped Android (React Native) white-labeled app for partner studios

Led the patron-focused pillar to build features for patreon.com, such as notifications, post comments, search, referral program, message inbox
Designed a front-end auto-deploy process and created a Chrome extension to aid in debugging production-only issues
Implemented framework for automated tests including end-to-end smoke tests

Built framework and features for the G+ photo viewer (lightbox)
Built G+ photos settings front-end
Led implementation of G+ photos pages redesign (as part of new cohesive Google design)

Built features for the relational organizing mobile app, enabling volunteers to reach out to their personal connections and potential voters (React Native)

Implemented the redesign of XDE, a Mac developer tool for building and sharing React Native projects

Previously, I was a wee intern at Amazon in 2009 and at Oracle in 2008.

JavaScript: React, single-spa, Apollo GraphQL, Redux, React Native, Webpack, Node, Cypress/Karma/Jasmine/Mocha
Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Java

2006 - 2010
B.S. in Computer Science, minor in math
GPA: 3.84

2002 - 2006
GPA: 95%