# Carrie Guan

> Software Engineer at DocuSign

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

I am a full stack software engineer proficient in React, GraphQL, REST, NodeJS, Python, and Postgres. Check out a business website I crafted from scratch: https://www.careyassociatescpa.com

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ DocuSign
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Strateos
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States
- Lead projects of 4 - 12 weeks and deliver reliable, scalable and maintainable features in a test driven environment;  
- Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available
solutions;
- Craft dynamic and interactive data visualization tool and contribute to proprietary UI library
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices

### Software Engineer @ Carey and Associates, CPA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Implemented a modular front end and optimized performance from 65 to 98 on Chrome Lighthouse
- Automated process for client inquiry and tax filing to reduce time spent on administrative duties from 20% to 5% and to increase revenue for 30% during Covid
- Established connection between GraphQL Client and Apollo Server, and integrated Twilio API for email feature and Stripe API for a secured payment platform.
- Crafted responsive UI feature such as multi-page inquiry, autocomplete search with debounce, dropdown selection, reusable mixin, media queries, flex box layouts, nested grids, complex animation, dynamic class names, and SVG

### Personal Website @ Projects
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Webpage that displays Carrie's projects:
•	Developed visual design using Figma to structure sitemap, sketch designs, determine theme colors and typography, and create mockups and wireframes
•	Incorporated industry best practice to translate visual design into technical implementation
•	Developed unit tests with Jest and Enzyme to guide test-driven development

### Style Homely @ Projects
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Full-stack app to browse and review rental properties:
•	Created a photo carousel to browse and add properties to favorites using React and RESTful APIs
•	Seeded PostgreSQL and MongoDB with data generation scripts for over 50 million records 
•	Optimized database query performance to take less than 2 ms
•	Established key performance metrics based on the app features and selected database between SQL and NoSQL with reference to C.A.P Theorem
•	Stress tested with Loader.io and New Relic to identify performance bottlenecks 
•	Horizontally scaled microservice to four AWS EC2 instances using Ubuntu and Nginx Load Balancer to increase request per second from 80 to 500


## Education
### Master's degree
California State University, Fresno

### Bachelor's degree
Beijing Foreign Studies University

### Guangzhou No.2 High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carrie-guan-0675251a9
- Portfolio: https://careyassociatescpa.com
- Portfolio: https://carrieguan17.github.io/portfoliowebsite/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29