Melanie Chow
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMelanie Chow is a software engineer with nine years of experience building customer-facing and platform systems, currently shaping sign-in, sign-up, and account lifecycle experiences at Databricks. With a University of Chicago CS background and a specialization in systems, she blends interests in AI, UI/UX, distributed systems, cybersecurity, and HCI to deliver polished, secure product flows. Her internships across autonomous vehicles at Lyft, infrastructure at PayPal/Braintree, and growth/product teams reflect a breadth from low-level systems and secrets management to UX-driven engagement features. Melanie has repeatedly owned end-to-end projects—everything from PKI and secrets redesigns to in-product onboarding tours and nutrition APIs—demonstrating an ability to move between research-heavy problems and production shipping. Based in the NYC area, she combines systems rigor with a designer’s attention to user experience, making her particularly effective at bridging security and usability.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (Specialization in Systems), Minor in Statistics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (Specialization in Systems), Minor in Statistics at University of ChicagoARISTA, Stuy Create, Spectator News (Art), Indicator Yearbook Committee (Art), Step, Girl's Golf, ARISTA, Stuy Create, Spectator News (Art), Indicator Yearbook Committee (Art), Step, Girl's Golf at Stuyvesant High School
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Github contributions (5)
melaniechow/melaniechow.github.io
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
XinYiC7/BroccoliTree
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 issue in 14 days
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