# Christina F.

> Software Engineer at Medallion

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/christinaf

I get excited by projects dealing with scale: how can we efficiently get our code to serve the next magnitude of customers? 

I'm a big fan of keeping things clean in the codebase. Clear comments, readable code, and necessary refactors.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Medallion
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ Samsara
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Current team: Infrastructure Platform, Data Storage
- backend infrastructure focus (Terraform, Go, AWS) 
- leading efforts towards StateRAMP certification 
- leading projects related to data deletion for legal requirements.

Previous team: Reports & Alerts
- fullstack focus (Go, GraphQL, React, Typescript)
- delivered features to unblock new alerting framework for 1000s of customers.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Samsara
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Migrated report computation from Go to Spark SQL to allow for 70% more efficient and scalable report computation, and provide insights about customer routing behavior.
- Standardized existing report page banners with React and TypeScript to improve UX.

### Software Engineering Intern - Application Development (ITOM, Cloud Insights) @ ServiceNow
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, California
Intern in the ITOM (IT Operations Management) Cloud Insights team, worked on developing a customer-facing app to allow customers to view usage on Microsoft Azure. I used Javascript to call Azure's REST API and persist data into customer instances, and XML to design the databases.

### Teaching Assistant @ Girls Who Code
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
I prepared lesson plans, went through a proof of concept for each project, and organized a schedule for each day. I assisted with teaching a class of 20 girls by teaching parts of the lesson, providing small group support, and one-on-one mentoring.

### Instructor @ Launch Math & Science Centers
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Taught children in groups of 8-15 in grades PreK-8 about programming, engineering, architecture, robotics, electronics, astronomy, and physics.

### Intern @ Wonton Food Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Created flowcharts of company functions to help select an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system 
Managed rudimentary database of factory inventory via Microsoft SharePoint.

### Teacher's Assistant @ KUEI LUCK ENRICHMENT CENTER
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Graded homework for Saturday enrichment program students; assisted young students with classwork activities.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Specializing in Human-Computer Interaction
University of Chicago
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### The Bronx High School of Science
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fordc-99

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Last updated: 2026-03-20