# Candace Chiang

> software engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/candace

stay happy :).

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Gamma
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Working @ Workspace team.

### Software Engineer @ Affirm
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked in Credit Engineering (a few different teams).

### Software Engineer @ Affirm
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked in the Loan Originations and Reporting team within Capital Engineering.

### Fellow @ Rewriting the Code
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Member of a network of female students and mentorship opportunities.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Affirm, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Interned on the Trading team within Capital Engineering.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Thunkable
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built user-critical features for web platform.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Two Sigma
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Interned on the High Impact Projects for Reliability (HIPR) team within Platform Engineering.

### iOS Mentor @ MDB
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California, United States
Created curriculum and provided training for incoming members in iOS development.

### iOS Developer @ MDB
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
Developed 5 full Swift apps in a rigorous 6-week training program. Designed, developed, and published a music-sharing app, Ditto.

### Project Developer @ The Daily Californian
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
Created interactive, data-driven web applications that address campus and city issues.

### Contributing Writer @ The Daily Californian
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
Wrote a variety of pieces exploring the culture in and around Berkeley as a part of the Weekender department, a unique subsection that publishes an online magazine every week.

### CS70 Course Tutor @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
Taught a small group of 3-4 students CS70, the discrete math and probability course, through weekly mini-lectures and problem-based worksheets.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Salesforce
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Interned on the Knowledge Experience Team within Service Cloud.

### Software Developer @ Virtual Reality at Berkeley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA
Spring 2018: collaborated with the Innovative Genomics Institute (including Jennifer Doudna!) on a mobile AR app that visualizes CRISPR genome editing technology.

Fall 2018: fleshed out the backend on a mobile app that visualizes convolutional neural network models.

### Outreach Member @ Virtual Reality at Berkeley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA
Demonstrated VR headsets to the surrounding community at the Berkeley Public Library, and helped organize VR@B's involvement in SodaHacks.

### Software Engineering Intern @ VMware
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA
Built a flexible question-answering system for VMware’s organizational hierarchy using a graph database, NLP, and Flask/Docker.

### Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA
Assistant position for CS61B (Data Structures): personally helped around 30-40 regular lab attendees and worked one-on-one with students at office hours every week.

### Electrical Team Member @ UC Berkeley Solar Vehicle Team, CalSol
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA
Soldered a BRAIN, helped solder part of the horn circuit board and display circuit board, and wrote some firmware in C++ for the display circuit board.

### FRC Software Lead: Team 649 @ M-SET Robotics
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Saratoga, CA
Coded the projective mechanism, drivetrain subsystem (tele-op and autonomous), and an autonomous mode for the robot. Also spearheaded and wrote Python backend scripts for Android scouting app.

### FTC Software Lead: Team 7390 @ M-SET Robotics
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Saratoga, CA
Coded the drivetrain, intake, and output subsystems of our ball-collecting robot as well as both tele-op and autonomous modes. Wired electronics, helped lead team design discussions, and drove robot during competitions.

Demoed robot and advocated for robotics at local libraries and schools, reaching 3000+ students in total.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Saratoga High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/candace-chiang

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Last updated: 2026-04-11