Stacey Tay
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolStacey Tay is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience building high-performance web applications, currently contributing at Figma after stints at Shopify and Carousell. She led Carousell’s performance-first Progressive Web App initiative, architecting a replacement web experience that tripled page load speed and materially increased traffic and conversion. At Shopify she helped launch Payments Platform APAC features including a million-card import service and built CDN monitoring to prevent regressions, blending product partnership with robust engineering. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, Stacey enjoys problems that mix computer-science theory and practical implementation—her favorite coursework includes Operating Systems, Language Implementation, and Program Analysis. She deepened systems and Rust skills during a self-directed residency at the Recurse Center, where she explored Linux network programming and cryptography. Beyond shipping features, she invests in onboarding, mentoring, and engineering culture to scale teams and sustain quality.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Session Computer Science, Summer Session Computer Science at Stanford UniversityExchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Computing Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Italian, Malay, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (48)
lighthouse10
audit10
performance-analysis10
auditing10
developer-tools10
oclif9
monitoring9
payment9
pelican8
newsletter8
shopify7
nodejs7
cli7
shader7
spree7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
staceytay/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
staceytay/raytracer
Jan 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
gpurayray-tracertracer
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.