Michelle Phung
Software Engineer at Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Phung is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, user-focused systems, currently modernizing the League platform at Riot Games. A UC Berkeley Computer Science graduate, she advanced from application developer to senior engineer at Workday where she worked on large-scale enterprise services. She contributes to Apache CouchDB and its Fauxton web UI, improving UX, automated browser tests, and dependency/version management—demonstrating both front-end polish and back-end reliability work. Comfortable across the stack, she has hands-on experience with testing, CORS/security tweaks, and integration tasks that keep distributed systems healthy. Based in Los Angeles, she combines production-grade engineering with a practical attention to maintainability and developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Spanish, Vietnamese
Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
couchdb10
dependency-management10
javascript10
erlang10
react9
database9
nightwatch9
databases9
testing8
ui-design8
cloud-computing5
big-data5
http4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/couchdb-fauxton
Oct 2014 - May 2018
Fauxton is the new Web UI for CouchDB
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 92 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Fauxton web UI for CouchDB. Their work focused on improving the user experience by fixing bugs related to UI navigation and editor behavior. They also implemented Nightwatch functional browser tests to test Fauxton and enhanced the UI for better usability including improvements to the CORS configuration page. These changes involved modifying JavaScript, HTML, and CSS files and adding automated testing capabilities to the project.
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apache/couchdb
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Seamless multi-primary syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 13 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Michelle's contributions primarily revolve around updating the Fauxton component, a likely web interface, within the CouchDB project. They repeatedly updated the version of Fauxton in the `rebar.config.script` file, indicating a focus on dependency management and integration. The user demonstrated a consistent pattern of releasing Fauxton updates, ensuring the project remains up-to-date with the latest features and potentially bug fixes. This suggests a role focused on maintaining the project's dependencies and ensuring the proper versioning for the CouchDB system.
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