Minnie Lai
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMinnie Lai is a backend software engineer with 9 years of experience designing and building microservices and server-side web systems, currently contributing to Snap Inc. in Seattle. She has a strong track record across consumer and platform companies—Dropbox, Groupon, zulily—where she focused on APIs, data aggregation, authentication, caching, and consistent cross-platform contracts. Comfortable across cloud and data tools (GCP, Hadoop) and languages from Node.js to C#, she also has experience in full-stack product work and interactive data visualization. A Harvey Mudd computer science graduate who spent time at the Recurse Center, she pairs disciplined engineering with a curiosity for functional programming and tooling. Colleagues describe her as thoughtful about API design and pragmatic about shipping reliable systems that scale.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegeiOS for Engineers, iOS for Engineers at CodePath
French, English
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