# Deborah Chu

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Sigma Computing
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Fixed major performance and scalability issues across product by rewriting 16 application areas to use paginated queries.
• Delivered projects including public API collections, version tagging, export of embeds, sorted permissions, end-to-end testing, and guest user email customization and account type conversion, as part of a product engineering team that supported enterprise users.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with sales, tech support, security, product, and design to resolve issues and build features.
• Supported backend and team on-call response to monitor, triage, and mitigate incidents and bugs quickly and drive resolution.

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
• Implemented shortened access URLs and deep-linking for SiteWise Monitor, a feature of AWS IoT SiteWise.
• Owned and delivered a project from design to production. Included multiple rounds of design reviews, a formal security review, and external vendor review.
• Wrote solution primarily in Go and worked with several AWS services.

### Full Stack Developer @ University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States
• Built and revamped web application interface using Angular 7 to provide data analysis, visualizations, advanced search, comparison, and account management features, including password reset functionality, email notifications, and user profiles. 
• Implemented and optimized scalable RESTful APIs in Node.js to query, store and process MongoDB data.

### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Taught 15-112, Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science. 
• Led daily recitations and assisted students at office hours, tutoring sessions, and online. 
• Mentored seven students in creating their final term projects.

### Assistant News Editor, Staff Writer, Copy Editor @ The Tartan Newspaper
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Produced weekly News section for Carnegie Mellon's student newspaper. Received Editor-in-Chief's Choice Award for Best Article - "Paul Mango Shares Thoughts on Leadership at Heinz Lecture Series”.

### Team Lead @ SASE Innoservice Design Competition
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Designed and created a prototype for "Prepper", an original mobile app that generates personalized recipes from the ingredients in your kitchen, for a national technology design competition. Finalist.

### Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Summer Research Institute
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Designed and executed an experiment in team of 3 to examine genetic differences between the processes of development and regeneration in marine life. Presented at symposium.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Southern California


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/deborah-chu-1b904996

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Last updated: 2026-03-29