# Alyssa Wei > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alyssawei As a cool headed, strong communicator who thrives amidst ambiguity I'm excited to transfer my engineering skillset to the digital space from a previous focus on physical product design. I've jumped headfirst into designing, building, and deploying full-stack applications relevant to retail, art/design, and gaming, but I maintain a true passion for education and health. I'm eagerly searching for my next Software Engineering opportunity. p.s. I'm holding a brain with a smiley face in my profile pic, because I'm all about that 'growth mindset' ## Work Experience ### Betsy - Software Engineer | Full-Stack @ Recent Applications Jan 2019 – Present Image Carousel module for online retail product pages > Re-engineered application back-end to handle 10 million records with 1.5ms query time > Utilized Postgresql dbms after stress-testing against an Apache Cassandra alternative model > Hosted on AWS EC2 t2.micro instances with 100rps throughput and 60ms response time > Employed New Relic Dashboard, K6, loader.io technologies for load testing depending on app stage ### Exhaust Games - Software Engineer | Full-Stack @ Recent Applications Jan 2019 – Present Purchase options module for games and relevant downloadable content > Built React app with popover modal and image carousel that utilizes AWS S3 as a media storage solution > Managed dynamic data rendering with Express Router server-side > Leveraged mongoDB's flexible data storage for handling documents of vastly varied size and structure - Implemented TDD using Jest + Enzyme and CircleCI ### PerfectPalette - Software Engineer | Full-Stack @ Recent Applications Jan 2019 – Present Photo integrated application for designing color palettes > Built on React front-end, Express server, MongoDB tech stack to choose, store, and display color palettes from photos > Incorporated Canvas API for pixel-level manipulation of user-uploaded photos ### Product Design @ KiwiCo, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Los Altos, CA - Owned end-to-end product design and life cycle of monthly STEAM toy subscription ### Engineering Program Manager @ Apple Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cupertino, CA Summary - Conducted five user studies that helped improve Apple's accessories (cable and audio) - Created protocols to facilitate prototype/reliability testing, qualification of 3rd party accessories, and future user studies Audio accessories project - Conducted user studies assessing the reliability of an audio product - Validated design and manufacturing improvements through study learnings - Presented learnings during an executive review - Created new format to guide future accessories user studies iOS accessories projects - Designed and conducted a 6-month user study assessing the robustness of Lightning cables - Standardized planning process and maintenance of user studies for cable products Internal hardware project - Oversaw design, build schedule and allocation of internal test boards Post-ramp quality project - Managed program for post-ramp quality improvement Audio accessories project no.2 - Coordinated a user study assessing the robustness of an audio product Audio accessories project no.3 - Conducted a user study exploring hardware configurations for an audio product - Learnings determined the optimal hardware configuration to inform industrial design decisions ### Teacher's Assistant, Biomedical Systems Prototyping Lab @ Stanford University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Guided 28 bioengineering students through the design process for a quarter long electromechanical system project. Organized, designed, and taught the curriculum with a collaborative teaching staff. ### Lentink Lab - Bio-Inspired Flight Robotics, Summer Research Intern @ Stanford University Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Stanford University, Stanford, CA Collaborated with 7 other undergraduate interns. Simulated the swarming of 20+ dragonfly-like flapping air vehicles using C++ and MATLAB. Assisted in hardware coding on the Arduino platform and mass manufacturing of swarming robots. Weekly lab meetings to report project progress, summer culminated with poster presentation among university mechanical engineering colleagues. ### Applied Biomechanics Laboratory, Summer Research Intern @ University of Washington Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | University of Washington, Seattle, WA Collaborated with engineers, surgeons and expert eyewitnesses on a variety of projects that included: design, building and assembly of a helmet drop tower system, cadaver tissue preparation for and observation of spinal and ACL screw pull-out tests, and brainstorming the design of a cheap lower limb prosthetic. High utilization of MATLAB to organize and interpret results of certain force testing that was performed. Weekly lab meetings to report project progress, summer culminated with ppt presentation at the National Institutes of Health in MD. ### Developmental Biology, Summer Research Intern @ University of Hawaii at Manoa Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI Performed gonadal harvesting of fetal mice, which required increased dexterity and careful dissection under low powered microscopes. Project required basic anatomical knowledge and understanding of the complex physical and genetic processes of fetal development and sex determination ### Immunology, Summer Research Intern @ University of Hawaii at Manoa Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI Trained in the handling and CO2 chamber termination of mice as well as the intricate removal of bone marrow and peritoneal cells of these previously sacrificed mice. Project required the rapid understanding of the complex pathways of early immune response and the mechanisms of vaccines ### Infectious Disease, Summer Research Intern @ University of Hawaii at Manoa Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI Mentored first time summer intern in the previously acquired skills of standard and real-time DNA/RNA extraction and amplification and Northern blots. Third summer of work with an infectious agent (S. pyogenes) ### Microbiology and Sports Medicine, Summer Research Intern @ Temple University Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA Published, as a co-author, an article in the American College of Sports Medicine journal, having studied the persistence of methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on Astroturf ### Microbiology and Cellular Biology, Summer Research Intern @ Temple University Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA Analyzed and began to characterize a newly discovered metabolic pathway of Streptococcus pyogenes, while learning basic wet lab protocols and techniques ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering Stanford University Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Biomechanical Engineering Stanford University Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ### High School Kamehameha High School Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 ### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Hack Reactor Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alyssa-mk-wei --- Source: https://flows.cv/alyssawei JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alyssawei/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22