Summary
Clare Ng is an engineering team lead with 11 years of experience building performant front-end experiences, currently leading teams at Zendesk in Seattle. She has progressed through hands-on roles from intern to lead, specializing in React-based UI development, front-end observability, and performance optimizations that reduced render times on large legacy products. Clare pairs product-minded engineering with operational discipline—helping define SLIs/SLOs and using metrics to drive design and prioritization. She’s mentored interns and junior engineers and has contributed to cross-functional onboarding, showing a commitment to growing engineering culture. With a background spanning web, research HCI, and even genomics tooling, she brings a curious, multidisciplinary perspective to shipping polished user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Winston Churchill High School
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, French, Japanese