Wai-yin Kwan
Museum Associate In Community Science
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWai-yin Kwan is a multidisciplinary software engineer and museum community science professional with 11 years of experience turning curiosity into usable tools that connect science and the public. She blends front-end and data-focused engineering (Svelte, Vega, Python, Pandas) with hands-on community science work at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and UC CALeDNA to make biodiversity data accessible. Her background in paper engineering and long track record of crafting tangible, interactive artifacts informs a design-minded approach to data visualization and public-facing tools. Wai-yin has led projects that harmonize legacy scientific datasets and modern web stacks—standardizing decades of ocean drilling records and building iNaturalist data explorers through open-science collaborations. She mentors and teaches community scientists how to analyze their own data, translating technical complexity into practical skills for diverse audiences. Always following curiosity, she combines storytelling, spatial thinking, and open-data practices to increase participation and diversity in STEM.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at AustinAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
Github Skills (184)
audio-player10
rails-app10
viewer10
shared9
javascript9
iiif9
doi9
arctic9
api9
ecology9
npm9
eml9
json-database9
localstorage9
zap9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
CodingForProduct/cfp_website
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:87 commits, 6 PRs, 78 pushes in 2 months
women-who-codewomensummerworkshop
CodingForProduct/demo-app-flask
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:53 pushes, 75 branches, 35 tags in 14 days
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