Melissa Kaufman-gomez
Engineering Manager at Wealthfront
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Kaufman-gomez is an engineering manager with nine years of experience building identity, search, and health-focused products at companies ranging from Google to CLEAR and Wealthfront. She has deep hands-on experience across backend and frontend engineering—launching KYC-compliant reusable identity systems, contributing to portable identity at Sora ID (acquired by CLEAR), and improving healthcare search and site surfacing at Google. A Columbia computer science alumna based in New York, she pairs technical leadership with a creative background in dance and public relations, often exploring the intersection of technology and human-centered experiences. Melissa’s open-source contributions include front-end work on semesterly’s UX and UI polish, reflecting a practical focus on usability alongside robust system design.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Fremont High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-design9
javascript9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
noahpresler/semesterly
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Your Semester Made Easier | Course Scheduling & Social Tools for Students
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:210 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Melissa primarily focused on front-end development, implementing features and styling for the "about" page. Their contributions involved creating the page structure, adding an image, and applying CSS styles. They also fixed credit ticker functionality, demonstrating their involvement in multiple parts of the application. These changes were focused on enhancing the user interface and providing additional information.
javascriptschedulingcourse-schedulingsemester
dextercallender/blur
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:9 PRs, 172 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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