Megan Ly
Software Engineer at The Salvation Army Kroc Center - San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMegan Ly is a software engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience applying a PhD-level mathematics background to education technology and automated assessment. She designs normalization algorithms and LaTeX-to-SymPy parsing rules to enable robust math validation and scoring for higher-education content, and currently contributes backend and QA work to the widely used SymPy computer algebra system. At Learnosity she builds production software that bridges symbolic math and assessment tooling, leveraging prior research experience where she secured grant funding and published novel combinatorics results. Outside of engineering she teaches and performs figure skating, bringing a physics-informed, performance-oriented mindset to coaching and team collaboration. Her work uniquely blends deep symbolic computation expertise with practical product delivery and a track record of open-source impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Mathematics, Master of Arts - MA, Mathematics at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, 4.0 at Loyola Marymount University
Chinese
Github Skills (7)
mathematics10
computer-algebra10
math10
python10
sympy10
sym10
testing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sympy/sympy
May 2019 - Sep 2022
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 14 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Megan primarily contributed to the simplification and improvement of trigonometric functions within the SymPy library. They focused on enhancing Fu transformations, correcting the handling of odd powers in these transformations, and updating doctests to reflect these changes. In addition to functional changes, the user also addressed issues related to expanding sums and integrals and fixed an issue with `as_coeff_Mul` for `Float(0.0)`. Their work included implementation and testing within the existing testing frameworks.
mathpythonsciencecomputer-algebra-systemalgebra
meganly/sympy
May 2019 - Aug 2023
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Contributions:1 release, 90 pushes, 24 branches in 4 years 3 months
pythoncomputer-algebra-systemnumbasymbolic-mathalgebra
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