Tegan Duong
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTegan Duong is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 10 years of full‑stack experience building high-performance web and mobile applications using Python, Django, JavaScript, and modern front-end frameworks. She has driven backend and frontend work across startups and large teams—most recently reducing API latency and adding GraphQL/TypeScript features at Twilio and now contributing at PayPal. Her background spans LIMS workflow architecture at Invitae, customer-facing React products, and robust API design with Node/Express and PostgreSQL, reflecting a strong blend of product sensitivity and systems thinking. Tegan mentors engineers, authors technical RFCs, and consistently improves test coverage and observability to keep services reliable in production. Trained originally in molecular toxicology before completing intensive software engineering at Hack Reactor, she brings a curious, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. Her public code samples on GitHub demonstrate a pragmatic focus on performance, maintainability, and polished user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Molecular Toxicology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Molecular Toxicology at University of California, BerkeleyComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorPflugerville High School
Github Skills (12)
wrapper9
netsuite9
api8
segment8
nodejs7
streaming6
python5
js-api5
django3
ruby3
react2
django-rest-framework2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Fit-Together/Fit-Together
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:25 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
teganduong/Fit-Together
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:31 pushes, 11 branches in 21 days
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