Melissa Kwan
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Kwan is a software engineer with eight years of experience building user-focused products, currently contributing to Figma’s platform from New York. A Harvard CS and Philosophy graduate, she blends rigorous algorithmic thinking (teaching CS51 and CS120 as a Head TF) with practical product instincts honed through internships at Dropbox and proton.ai. Her background spans front-end and systems work, and she has a track record of mentoring students and shaping curricula—an unusual mix that informs how she designs developer-friendly features. Active in academic open-data efforts (@HarvardOpenData, @Harvard-Datamatch), she brings both collaborative research experience and production engineering discipline to cross-functional teams.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science + Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science + Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude at Harvard UniversityThe Harker School
Github Skills (23)
catalog10
open-data10
ecology9
digital-humanities9
bootcamp9
data-catalog9
visualization8
science7
documentation7
machine-learning6
python6
data-science6
data-visualization5
orange5
voting5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mwjkwan/voting-methods
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Harvard CS91r project visualizing voting methods.
Contributions:16 PRs, 27 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
orangevoting-methodsvisualizingvotingharvard
mwjkwan/hello-world
Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
testingtesting-tools
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