# Cora Lam > Software Engineer at Descript | ex-Meta Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/cora ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Descript Jan 2023 – Present Working on AI Actions, Agent Underlord, and editing workflows to make the editing process as seamless as possible πŸ€– https://www.descript.com/underlord ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park Fullstack engineer: 2+ years on International Growth/Monetization; 1 year building Bulletin.com 1. Bulletin.com: 0-1 platform for independent journalists to share their story β€’ Worked on the creator experience side to build drafting, editing, and publishing tools 2. Facebook Connectivity (aka Internet.org): Growth team focused on international scaling and collaborating with mobile operators to provide data to users in emerging markets β€’ Drove experiments that target data pack sales and content localization ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, CA Worked on the Producer Growth team focused on increasing posts from new users β€’ Ideated and ran experiments on Facebook's mobile site (MBasic) designed for feature phones β€’ Added cover photos to MBasic's profile pages, driving up posts from new users ### Software Engineering Intern @ Snap Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Venice Beach, CA Worked on Snapchat’s platform for A/B Testing β€’ Designed and implemented tool to search and track all A/B tests in a schedule view for teams to avoid creating overlapping tests that target a similar area β€’ Extended feature release dashboard with A/B test rollout data to monitor for crashes ### Software Engineering Intern @ Toast, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boston, Massachusetts Worked on the API and Integrations team β€’ Developed a concurrent task scheduler that improves synchronization speed by 10x for customer orders made through an API to the kitchen display system β€’ Built a gift card import validation tool lowering one of the top reported support tickets β€’ Improved barcode generation algorithm by reducing probability of duplication by 32x β€’ Implemented a mock data generator to speed up data creation for tests ### Co-Founder @ Tech Retreat Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Co-founded Tech Retreat, a hackathon and learnathon to empower over 150 secondary students in the field of technology. Coordinated volunteers and managed logistics for this one-day event at The University of Waterloo. ### Software Developer Intern @ Autodesk Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Montreal, Canada Area Fullstack engineer working on parametric CAD features for Fusion 360's web application (Project Leopard) β€’ Improved grid snapping to take into account zoom level by using quantization β€’ Used raycasting to make 3D sketch planes selectable based on mouse position β€’ Refactored critical features to reach feature parity with the Fusion 360 desktop application ### Software Engineering Intern @ Veeva Systems Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, Canada Area Fullstack engineer on Veeva's Network team β€’ Developed a file archiver with expander and compressor for data files β€’ Integrated FTPS Client to transfer data to users from multiple servers β€’ Built tool to report data with AWS Redshift ### Camp Program Leader @ City of Mississauga Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | South Common Community Centre Planned interactive activities to further healthy active living in youths ## Education ### Bachelor of Computer Science in Computer Science (Co-op) University of Waterloo Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/coraellation --- Source: https://flows.cv/cora JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/cora/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20