Emma Ling
Software Engineer at Convex
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEmma Ling is a software engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of hands-on experience building product-focused systems at startups and scale-ups. She currently develops at Convex after contributing to healthcare infrastructure at Commure and completing two forward-deployed engineering internships at Palantir, blending product-facing problem solving with backend and systems work. A Harvard CS graduate who also studied sociology, she brings both technical rigor and a user-centered perspective to complex engineering challenges. Early roles—from teaching CS50 to algorithm work on geospatial air quality data and even managing a student experiment sent to the ISS—showcase her ability to communicate technical ideas and lead interdisciplinary projects. Colleagues would describe her as a practical engineer who translates research and data into production features while keeping an eye on real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science with a secondary in Sociology, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science with a secondary in Sociology at Harvard UniversityLa Costa Canyon HS
English, Spanish
Github Skills (76)
postgresql10
python10
operation10
data-warehouse10
databases10
duckdb10
backend10
data-pipeline10
pipeline10
rust10
database10
bigquery10
mysql10
java10
parity10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andrew-shackelford/Harvard_Twitter_Research_2018
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Research about political influence on Twitter
Contributions:11 PRs, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
politicalinfluencetwitter
emmaling27/bookworm
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:56 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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