# Aster Guan

> Software Engineer at TikTok

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

I graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2021 with a double degree in Computer Science and Classical Languages (the study of Latin and Ancient Greek) and am currently putting my CS degree to good use as a software engineer at TikTok.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Designed and developed a workflow to optimize daily pipeline scanning of source-of-truth table. Utilized AWS and Apache services such that the pipeline queries directly from a dataset updated hourly, individual from the pipeline.

### Personal Writing Tutor @ Freelance
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Edit speeches, literary analyses, and personal, expository, and persuasive essays, as well as offering guidance and assistance to high school seniors in their college application process

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Lead 30 students weekly in labs for EECS 16A: Designing Information Devices and Systems I.

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Evaluated and integrated a new caching solution for a high scale, low latency service. Ran simulations of customer traffic to evaluate cache efficiency by incorporating latency metrics.

### EECS Tutor @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Assist 30 students weekly in labs for EECS 16A: Designing Information Devices and Systems I

### EECS Academic Intern @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Assist 30 students weekly in labs for the CS 61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, CS 61B: Data Structures, and Data 8: Foundations of Data Science

### Glass Room Ingenius @ Mozilla
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
Facilitated hour-long public workshops on digital privacy with Mozilla’s Glass Room pop-up exhibition. Guided visitors in improving their tech, privacy, and data skills and raising awareness on these issues.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science & Classical Languages
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021

### Girls Who Code
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aster-guan

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Last updated: 2026-03-22