Shirlyn Tang is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems and machine learning-infused features, currently working at Actively AI in New York. A UCSB computer science graduate, she spent three formative years at Meta after interning at Facebook and Microsoft, gaining production-scale engineering experience across consumer and search products. She is comfortable bridging research and product work, having contributed as an undergraduate researcher at UCSB and shipped intern projects at major tech firms. Shirlyn’s interests span backend development, ML, and computer graphics, which informs a pragmatic approach to performant systems and visual problem solving. Known for rapidly moving from prototype to production, she blends academic curiosity with hands-on delivery in fast-paced environments.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
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