Karen Liu

I'm a software engineer with 15+ years of industry experience in
front-end web development. My passion is creating beautiful,
easy-to-use, reliable interfaces for a variety of industries and
applications. Thanks for visiting!
Work Experience
CloudKitchens
Feb 2021 - Apr 2024
This startup is still in stealth mode. I hope to share more details soon!
Zenrez
May 2016 - Dec 2017, Apr 2018 - May 2020
This startup partnered with boutique fitness studios to dynamically price classes and target custom membership offers to their clients.- Architected web front-ends including online booking and newsfeed platform for fitness studios, CRM, targeted email marketing landing pages, and business dashboard
- Implemented purchase flow within iframe to allow users to book via 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 studio app

Patreon
Dec 2014 - Mar 2016
- 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

Square
May 2012 - Aug 2014
- Part of founding team of Square Payroll
- Tech lead for team of five engineers building redesigned merchant dashboard
- Built purchase flow for "business in a box" hardware

Jul 2010 - May 2012
- 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)
Contract Positions

Empower
August 2020 - December 2020
- Built features for the relational organizing mobile app, enabling volunteers to reach out to their personal connections and potential voters (React Native)

Exponent (now Expo)
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
- Implemented the redesign of XDE, a Mac developer tool for building and sharing React Native projects
Internships

Amazon
May 2009 - June 2009
- Analyzed customers in various cohort arrangements to understand usage of the Customer Discussions feature

Oracle
May 2009 - June 2009
- Features and bug fixes for the Oracle Beehive product
Tools
Languages
JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Java
JavaScript frameworks and libraries
React, single-spa, Apollo GraphQL, Redux, React Native, Webpack, Node, Cypress/Karma/Jasmine/Mocha
Education

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

Stuyvesant High School
- 2002 - 2006
- GPA: 95%
Fun Personal Stuff
Project | Links |
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Pipe Dream clone | source code |
Slider puzzle solver | source code |
Vegetarianism slideshow | source code |
Flickr lightbox | source code |
Secret Santa | source code |
Whack-a-mole mobile game | source code |