# Alisa Ren

> Mid-level Software Engineer & Master’s Animation Student

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alisa

Software engineer, CG generalist, artist. Highly skilled in both software solutions and the world of CG, animation, and film.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
▪ Developing and maintaining backend services that provide endpoints to retrieve bonus content on Prime Video
▪ Working extensively with modern cloud AWS services, including CloudFormation, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, ECS, AppConfig, Cognito, IAM, and others
▪ Constructed Jenkins pipeline to automate the process of building a mobile app from Unity to Xcode/apk and publishing the builds to the Apple and Google app stores
▪ Built an interactive Alexa skill based off a tree structure which answered lore questions about a Prime Video title

### Software Engineer @ Mentor Graphics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Fremont
▪ Developed features and APIs for FPGA compilation software
▪ Applied graph algorithms to problems in digital logic
▪ Profiled performance using memory statistics and Vtune in order to reduce runtime and memory usage of algorithms
▪ Debugged issues using GDB and Valgrind
▪ Collaborated with engineers internationally (Europe, Africa) and locally

### Software Engineer Intern @ CliniComp, Intl.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | La Jolla
▪ Improved performance of client software for nurses in hospitals by developing React with Hooks app and integrating it into pre-existing web application written in Javascript
▪ Eliminated former bugs, improved page load speed by 40% after running iterative performance tests with Chrome and React profilers

### Undergraduate Tutor @ University of California San Diego
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | La Jolla
▪ Organized regular office and lab hours, graded assignments, provided one-on-one tutoring in digital logic design, encapsulating topics such as Boolean logic, state machines, and sequential and combinational modules
▪ Prepared and led in-class peer discussion of 100+ students

### Undergraduate Researcher @ University of California San Diego
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | La Jolla
▪ Collaborated with research team to determine empirical number of distinct minimum s-t cuts in directed graphs
▪ Designed Java code to randomly generate directed graphs and implement Ford-Fulkerson's max-flow min-cut algorithm to calculate number of cuts in each graph
▪ Analyzed the distributions of the number of cuts with Matlab and made conclusions about the lower and upper bounds of the all-pairs minimum cut problem in directed graphs


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
UC San Diego
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### Master's degree in Animation
San José State University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alissa-ren

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Last updated: 2026-03-22