Sunshine Chong
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSunshine Chong is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and real-time systems. She holds an MS in Computer Science from UC Davis and combines a creative background (BFA in Painting) with strong engineering chops in Python, Java, TypeScript, and WebSocket-driven architectures. At Goldman Sachs she helped redesign onboarding to a push-based model, cutting overhead and enabling live entitlement-based updates; at Microsoft she shipped features for M365 Copilot and led a hackathon-winning debug tool that boosted engineering efficiency. She has research credentials including an IEEE Big Data publication on recommendation systems and has taught large undergraduate CS courses while automating grading pipelines. Sunshine values transparent cross-team communication and continuous skill growth, and she still pursues art alongside engineering—bringing a visual, user-focused perspective to product UX.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Other Computer Science, Other Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Painting, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Painting at California College of the ArtsMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of California, DavisHigh School Diploma Visual Art, High School Diploma Visual Art at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the ArtsPainting and Photography, Painting and Photography at California Summer School for the ArtsAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at City College of San Francisco
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
next-level8
trainings7
landscape6
javascript5
css5
security4
cybersecurity3
infosec3
blueteam3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CyberSecurityClub/cyber-club
Oct 2018 - Jul 2022
CCSF Cyber Club website. This is an Open Source project and the goal of this project is to create a one-stop shop for students and industry partners to learn about our organization, stay informed about our activities and also participate.
Contributions:73 commits, 39 PRs, 66 pushes in 3 years 9 months
cybergoalcssjavascriptstop
sunschong/wallbreakers
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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