Serena Kuo
Senior Software Engineer at Modular
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSerena Kuo is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with six years of experience building full-stack applications that prioritize usability and thoughtful design. She has shipped production features across startups and security-focused teams—from crafting Electron-based database tooling at SeeQR to improving frontend reliability and end-to-end testing at companies like HackerOne and Eko. Comfortable across Node, React/TypeScript, Docker, and PostgreSQL, Serena blends product-minded UI work with backend architecture and developer tooling. She mentors engineers, champions reproducible development environments, and has a foundation in film and digital media that informs her attention to user experience and visual clarity. Notably, she helped architect SeeQR’s granular SQL schema/ query analytics and app shell, reflecting an interest in developer-facing tools that surface actionable insights.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Film/Cinema/Video Studies at New York UniversityMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Digital Media, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Digital Media at Rhode Island School of Design
Github Skills (12)
electron10
webpacker10
webpack10
typescript-types9
react9
typescript9
typescripts9
javascript9
sc7
css7
html7
scs7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/SeeQR
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
A database analytic tool that allows developers to compare the efficiency of different schemas and queries on a granular level to make better informed architectural decisions regarding SQL databases at various scales.
Role in this project:
Backend & Frontend Developer
Backend & Frontend DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 76 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Serena contributed to setting up the Electron application, separating the webpack configuration for development and build environments. They implemented features for opening the Electron app in dev mode and incorporated a splash window for the application. Further, they refactored the application structure to include main and schema components and created a functional modal window to facilitate schema input.
decisionsmysqlanalyticsqldatabases
serenackuo/SeeQR
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
A database analytic tool that allows a developer to compare the efficiency of different schemas and queries on a granular level to make better informed architectural decisions regarding SQL databases at various scales.
Contributions:1 commit, 41 pushes, 11 branches in 1 day
decisionsmysqlanalyticsqldatabases
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