Susan Wen

Software Engineer III [Senior]

Apr 2025 - Current

• Introduced real time updates leveraging WebSockets/nginx to UX web applications and other ongoing features (e.g., WYSIWYG editor, commenting) with monthly releases, enabling active collaboration of UX researchers
• Dockerized and introduced GitHub Actions CI/CD for legacy UX applications, reducing complexity of release and test processes, while delivering ongoing improvements to security libraries and infrastructure
• Implemented client-side search leveraging Lunr.js and sandbox annotation (notes) feature integrated with GraphQL backend in developer sandbox management app, increasing developer productivity
• Developed full stack TypeScript/React insight annotation app with Next.js and PrismaORM, allowing UX designers to catalogue and synthesize findings
• Led rearchitecture of UX survey app to research activity hub using TypeScript/React (Next.js) with Express.js middleware, reducing build times. Responsible for design, implementation, CI/CD, security/SSO

Software Engineer I, II

Jun 2023 - Apr 2025

• Implemented features for Electron/React developer sandbox management app to enable increased integration with Perforce clients and improve usability for users across supported operating systems: Debian/macOS/Windows
• Responsible for multiple components of company-wide development code-review tool (e.g. MATLAB codebase). Migrated Django codebase from Python 2 to 3, developing database rollback strategy. Introduced fast search via Elasticsearch and improved data cleanup/backup via cron jobs to reduce redundant jobs/emails by 5x
• Designed and implemented RESTful APIs and UI features for React /Java UX survey app, including drag-and-drop, question grouping, and randomization, streamlining UX research productivity
• Created Java Spring and React microservices for managing applicant emails and qualifications in full stack Applicant Tracking System, built with Maven, unit tested with Jest/Mockito to improve maintainability

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022 - Aug 2022

• Developed CI/CD cluster server management full stack application with Node.js API, tested using Mocha, to manage build and test machine mappings database with React front end
• Integrated dark mode UX specifications into internal build and test dashboard
• Implemented Node.js and React expansion to internal system notification service so that non-admin users can also manage notifications (downtime, updates etc.) of their own services
• Compiled research to determine scope of Perforce to Git transition for company product, resulting in internal architecture department moving to Git

Web Development & Data Intern | CISESS [Research Institute]

Jun 2021 - May 2022

• Designed and implemented an user-interactive website to display NOAA/STAR precipitation validation images with Flask, co-authoring "NPreciSe - An Automated Satellite Precipitation Product Assessment Tool" paper
• Created visualizations of weather data over time using matplotlib

Bioinformatics Intern

Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

• Processed clinical data using Cell Ranger analysis pipeline, and analyzed outputs using pandas, matplotlib to identify clusters relevant to cancer T-cell research