KY Karen Lin

Work Experience

I've had the opportunity to work with a variety of organizations.

Each of which has helped me develop invaluable skills and experience. Here are a few highlights from my work experience.

Meta, SWE Intern

Seattle, WA, US

2022 May - 2022 Aug

ReactJS

CSS

Hack (PHP)

UI Design

OOP

Upgraded the alert-inbox page of the developer communication platform using a new React component library

Increased consistency of the UI styling across the platform

Enhanced the visual appeal of the webpage to align it better with the current UI design standards

Developed both the frontend and backend of the test-launch feature of the developer communication platform

Allowed engineers and content designers to launch a message for testing purposes without getting content approvals

Enhanced efficiency by preventing users from wasting time waiting for approvals

Implemented logic to validate and restrict the recipient type of a test-launch

Designed the UI using Figma

Added the alert-template feature to the developer communication platform

Allowed users to select a template from a dropdown and compose a message using the selected template

Increased efficiency by eliminating the need for users to compose a message from scratch

Achievers, SWE Intern

Toronto, ON, CA

2021 Sept - 2021 Dec

ReactJS

SCSS

Python

OOP

Added user-input validation for the announcement edit form

Used Formik and Yup to validate user-input on the frontend

Wrote a class to validate data received on the backend

Added styling to images/GIFs of recognition post edit form

Created a blurred copy of an image, proportionally enlarged it, and used it as a background

Put the original image on top of the blurred image

Fixed frontend and backend bugs

Made the UI more responsive by removing unwanted white spaces according to the screensize

Fixed permission issues

Fixed bug occurred while fetching data from GCS

Handled storing images

Wrote scripts to scale and crop images/GIFs, and upload them to a GCS bucket

Achievers, SWE Intern

Toronto, ON, CA

2021 Jan - 2021 Apr

PHP

Unit Test

Unit test

Performed unit testing

Used PHPUnit to mock method calls and data

KGS Research, Programmer (Internship)

Scarborough, ON, CA

2020 Jan - 2020 Aug

JavaScript

HTML

Programmed and set up surveys before launching

Used HTML tags to format question text

Handled skip logic using conditional statements

Wrote scripts to randomize answer options with a specific arrangement

Wrote scripts to validate participants' responses