Sophia Feng
Engineering Manager at Perplexity
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSophia Feng is an engineering manager with nearly a decade of experience leading growth and product engineering teams at high-growth consumer platforms including Whatnot, Pinterest, and now Perplexity. She specializes in building creator and community-focused experiences—live streaming, chat, onboarding, and experimentation systems—that scale engagement and monetization. Sophia blends hands-on technical judgment with product sensibility and a track record of shipping growth activation features across international markets. She mentors teams to move quickly while maintaining robust experimentation and localization frameworks. Based in New York with a CMU HCI-inflected CS background, she also brings uncommon empathy for user-facing craft, evidenced by public speaking on growth, experimentation, and career development. Outside work she sharpens focus and creativity by making specialty coffee, a hobby that mirrors her iterative, detail-oriented approach to engineering and product.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Human-Computer Interactions, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Human-Computer Interactions at Carnegie Mellon UniversityiOS for Engineers, iOS for Engineers at CodePath
Chinese
Stackoverflow
993reputation
287kreached
14answers
3questions
Github Skills (10)
json6
syntax6
mongodb6
keyboard-shortcuts6
python6
database6
keyboard6
intellij-idea6
mysql6
pymysql6
Github contributions (5)
sophiafeng/tipster
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
reacttipcalculatorcalculator-apptip-calculator
sophiafeng/ios_yelp_swift
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 day
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