Summary
Amy Liao is a Senior Frontend Engineer who blends a creative design sensibility with a proven ability to ship scalable user interfaces across finance, e-commerce, and automotive tech. With around a decade of experience, she currently leads frontend work at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, collaborating across product, design, and QA to meet sprint goals. She has hands-on experience migrating Angular apps to TypeScript, modularizing architectures for readability and reuse, and strengthening security by integrating permissions into investor web applications. Her career spans Nike, Jaguar Land Rover North America, and roles focused on process improvement, design collaboration, and production-ready code. An unusual but powerful combo of journalism/media studies and Dev Bootcamp software engineering informs her storytelling approach to UI and her continuous curiosity for how systems fit together. Based in the Portland metro area, she thrives in collaborative, community-driven environments that fuel her growth as a developer and designer.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Dev Bootcamp
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism and Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts, Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University
Associate of Science (A.S.), Business Administration and Management, General, Associate of Science (A.S.), Business Administration and Management, General at San Diego Mesa College
chinese: cantonese