Elisa Pan
Quantum Curriculum Developer at UBC Geering Up Engineering Outreach
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolElisa Pan is a software developer engineer and computer engineering MEng student at UBC with 16 years of experience contributing to production-ready systems, from backend integrations in Open edX and WeBWorK to DevOps improvements for Mattermost Docker. She combines hands-on backend work—authentication, LTI integrations, and database tooling—with ML research experience optimizing and sparsifying ResNet and VGG models for deployment and privacy-preserving structured pruning. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, Elisa has built collaborative tools (Django tagging), exam-simulation services, and curriculum materials, and will join Amazon as an SDE in Summer 2026. Based in Richmond/Vancouver, she brings a creative, user-focused mindset and an educator’s perspective from multiple TA and outreach roles, plus a curious habit of turning domain knowledge into practical open-source contributions.
16 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachillerato of Science, Letters, and Commerce, Bachillerato of Science, Letters, and Commerce at Saint Mary SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese, French, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
docker10
shibboleth10
postgresql10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
webwork10
statistics10
authentication10
user-authentication10
bash10
database-administration10
perl10
dockers10
shibboleth-sp10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost-docker
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Dockerfile for mattermost in production
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 41 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Elisa's primary contributions center on enhancing the Mattermost Docker environment. They implemented features related to database configuration, allowing customization of database host, user, and password. They added support for Wal-E backups, configuring archive mode and related environment variables for backup and restore functionality. Furthermore, they introduced the capability to customize the configuration file location, improving flexibility and persistent storage management.
dockerfilein-productiondockermattermostproduction
openwebwork/webwork-open-problem-library
Oct 2015 - Sep 2021
A library of WeBWorK problems contributed by the OpenWeBWorK community
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 17 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Elisa contributed to the OpenProblemLibrary, adding and modifying problems for the UBC STAT courses, specifically focusing on problems related to statistics concepts. These changes involved modifying existing problem files, adding new ones, and removing redundant elements, likely to enhance the problem library. The user demonstrates proficiency in WeBWorK problem creation by working on mathematical and statistical questions within the .pg files. The commits reflect a focus on content and structure updates within the problem sets.
problems
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