# Christina L.

> eng @ pavilion

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Pavilion
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Core engineer on demand-side product building end-to-end workflows for a government purchasing marketplace.

### Instructor Assistant, Web Design @ Mission Bit
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Engineering Manager & Tech Lead | Monetization @ Kapwing
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Hands-on lead of a full-stack engineering team owning monetization and B2B growth for a collaborative video product. My role involved:
    - Partnering with Product and Marketing leads to prioritize projects driving recurring business revenue.
    - Contributing to key migration projects, owning the payments and billing domain integrated with Stripe, and delivering user-facing features.
    - Leading agile processes and team syncs to align with product and business objectives.
    - Coaching and mentoring engineers, resulting in several successful promotions and professional growth milestones.
    - Playing a key role in recruiting efforts to scale the engineering team effectively.

### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Kapwing
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
I joined Kapwing as their 10th hire during its growth from seed to Series A, contributing to core features and subsystems across the product. My work spanned from complex frontend animations to optimizing our video rendering pipeline, with a strong focus on product ownership and evaluating new technologies for integration.

Impactful projects included:
    - An inline text editor utilizing Draft.js.
    - A color selection eyedropper tool using HTML Canvas.
    - A waveform visualizer using Web Audio API and FFT analysis.
    - Architecting a distributed system for parallel video processing, boosting video output efficiency by 3-4x.
    - Seeding our automated test suite with Cypress and Jest.

### Volunteer Teaching Assistant @ Code Tenderloin
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area


## Education
### Computer Architecture and the Hardware/Software Interface
Bradfield School of Computer Science

### Computer Software Engineering
Hackbright Academy

### Bachelor of Laws - LLB
The Chinese University of Hong Kong


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christinaling
- Website: https://github.com/cckl

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Last updated: 2026-04-01