# Connie C. > Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/conniec ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2023 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Present ### Hack Advisor @ UCLA ACM Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Hack Co-President @ UCLA ACM Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 - Lead a team of 12 students to organize weekly workshop series teaching the fundamentals of web and mobile development, as well as one-off events designed to give students the opportunity to apply their skills through new and creative outlets - Foster an inclusive and growth-oriented community among the board and the students that attend our events ACM Hack's mission is to empower the community by providing the means to build amazing things and explore what is possible through code. ### Hack Officer @ UCLA ACM Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 -[Tech+You Co-Director] Co-directed the first-ever Tech+You, an event which aimed to showcase how Computer Science could be applied to a diverse array of industries, ranging from art and biology to music. We invited 10+ student groups, professors, and industry professors to come speak about their experiences in their respective interdisciplinary fields, and had over 80 student attendees from a variety of majors come out to explore! -[Hack on the Hill V Co-Director] Co-directed Hack on the Hill V, a 12-hour beginner friendly hackathon at UCLA which saw over 120 student attendees and featured over 10 workshops covering a variety of topics including 3D web development, iOS, Alexa skills, and machine learning. Hack Committee Intern (Feb 2018- March 2018) -Led an hour-long Intro to Git workshop at Hack on the Hill IV for 20+ beginner hackers ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Memory and Lifespan Cognition Lab Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Learning Assistant @ University of California, Los Angeles Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Learning Assistant for CS 97- Software Construction Projects ### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Built a robust and modular feature to improve user time management using TypeScript/React for Outlook - Wrote C# handler code to update a user's settings within the existing server framework - Implemented Power Query M formula language queries to build data visualization and monitoring dashboards in PowerBI ### Learning Assistant @ University of California, Los Angeles Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 The mission of UCLA’s learning assistant program is to empower students through inclusive STEM teaching by facilitating collaborative and inclusive learning. As a Learning Assistant for CS 32 (Introduction to Computer Science II), I - Collaborated with TAs to plan and facilitate engaging weekly discussion sections - Strengthened communication skills and course knowledge by fostering student learning ### Advisor @ exploretech.la Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Executive Director @ exploretech.la Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 (Formerly TEALS Computer Science Fair) - Directed the second installment of exploretech.la, which saw over 200 high school attendees, over $10k in funding, over 10 corporate partners, and 9 panels/workshops organized by our team - As this was our first year as a stand alone organization, we laid the groundwork and established strong relationships with UCLA entities that would ensure success for the organization in future years ### Operations Director @ exploretech.la Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 (Formerly TEALS Computer Science Fair) -Led the 8-person Operations Team for the first-ever TEALS Computer Science Fair in LA, an event in which 250+ high school students from Title I high schools came out to experience Computer Science through many UCLA student group/industry booths, panels and workshops -Organized event-day logistics, including food for 300 people, venue, school and volunteer check-in, and transportation -Trained and coordinated over 20 volunteers and 8 staff members to fill various event-day positions including set-up, check-in, security, serving food, clean-up across 8 hours ### Software Developer @ Creative Labs Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 BR3W is a smart coffee machine that bridges customizability and convenience. We are building a coffee machine from scratch that has the capability to have customizable settings that are controlled through a mobile application. - Collaborated with a team of four developers and the software lead to design the features, layout, use cases, and design of the mobile app, which was built using React Native - Implemented Bluetooth functionality for the app, which allowed for real-time communication between the Arduino Uno in the coffee machine and the mobile app - Built and styled the progress page, which received real-time data from the coffee machine in order to accurately and responsively display which step of the coffee-making process was currently happening: heating up the water, dispensing the water, or dispensing the coffee - Implemented the navigation capability between different pages of the app ### Software Engineering Intern @ Booz Allen Hamilton Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Booz Allen Hamilton's Summer Games Program is an intensive 10-week program in which interns collaborate to build products to solve real client issues, culminating in a 3-day conference in which all the intern teams across the country present their solutions to senior leadership at the firm and compete for the Challenge Cup. What I did: - Implemented UI improvements on a visualization tool for Kubernetes clusters on a cloud environment, taking into account scalability and ease of use for all users - Collaborated with a team of interns from various educational backgrounds and ages to manage the development and execution of the product, and develop a marketing strategy for it - Won the Challenge Cup with our product and pitch, beating out nearly 400 interns and 80+ intern teams across the country ### Frontend Developer @ Creative Labs Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 FLUX (FLipped UX) is a technological art project that showcases a social media website that is designed to be visually aesthetic, but is composed entirely of features that are intentionally designed to have horribly unintuitive UX. This project aims to emphasize how important of a role design plays in our lives and how it is too often overlooked. - Collaborated with a team of five developers to build the product within an eight-week time frame - Implemented real-time messaging functionality for 100+ users by storing messages and conversations in Firebase - Used React to build the user profile page and populated responsive sections with the user's friends list, posts, and liked posts ### Software Engineering Intern @ Vertebrae Inc Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Axis is a content management system for 3D assets -Built the user interface with user-friendly and responsive components using React/Redux -Implemented CRUD file operations to S3 buckets with Express/Node.js -Refactored front-end with Redux-saga for maintainability and efficiency -Integrated spinner component into entire user interface ## Education ### B.S. Computer Science in Minor in Cognitive Science UCLA ### South High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/conniechen21 --- Source: https://flows.cv/conniec JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/conniec/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29