Paulina Ng
Software Engineer at Descript
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulina Ng is a software engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience who transitioned from bioengineering into full-time software development after earning a bioinstrumentation MS and completing Hackbright's software engineering fellowship. She has shipped consumer-facing features at Descript and built conversational assistant capabilities at Viv Labs, bringing a research-driven approach to product engineering. Her background includes hands-on hardware integration for medical devices and domain knowledge in biosensing, which gives her an edge when tackling problems at the intersection of software, embedded systems, and analytics. Known for moving between research and product roles, she combines academic rigor with pragmatic shipping discipline to deliver user-facing systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Fellowship, Software Engineering Fellowship at Hackbright AcademyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor’s Degree, Bioengineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Bioengineering at UC Berkeley
Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
bixby9
shoes8
transaction6
data-sync5
oauth4
openid-connect3
natural-language-processing2
transactional2
javascript2
scraper2
datetime1
machine-learning1
python1
nlp1
natural-language-understanding1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qwnpng/moodwatch
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:129 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
paulinang/capsule-sample-bank
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
This sample capsule uses transactional features to create a simple, one-step method for transferring money.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year
transactionalmethodcapsulemoneyone-step
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