Willa Qu
Software Engineer at Zip
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilla Qu is a software engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building full-stack features used by millions in enterprise products. She has shipped high-impact work at Figma and Quip—driving an enterprise team-management feature adopted rapidly by customers and leading Dev Mode monetization efforts that materially increased upgrades. Her background in microbiology and hands-on pathogen research informs a pragmatic, data-driven approach to engineering and product security, and she pairs that with practical front-end and back-end chops from Python to JavaScript. Willa mentors junior engineers, leads small technical teams, and has repeatedly owned end-to-end design, implementation, and customer testing. Outside engineering she blends scientific rigor with curiosity—she’s a microbiologist, programmer, and gamer who leverages interdisciplinary thinking to solve complex UX and security problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Microbiology Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Microbiology Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (13)
reorder9
react-testing6
react5
javascript5
threejs5
react-three-fiber4
single-page4
localstorage3
testing3
kanban2
blueprintjs1
testing-library1
react-testing-library1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MichelleWillaQu/A-Simple-Kanban-Board
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
A simple Kanban Board with HTML5 LocalStorage. A focus on a single-page React app, React-testing-library (with Jest), and BlueprintJS.
Contributions:49 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jestblueprintjsreact-testing-libraryhtml5single-page
MichelleWillaQu/ObjectViewGallery-Art-Showcase
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
A website to create and view portfolios of 2D and 3D art where users can dynamically reorder the art of their portfolio. A focus on React and ThreeJS.
Contributions:95 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
reactartjavascriptreact-three-fiberthreejs
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