# Emily Zhai > Full-Stack Engineer Dedicated to Doing Good Location: Norfolk, Virginia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/emilyzhai Passionate and driven full-stack engineer dedicated to creating technology that makes a positive and meaningful impact on and the lives of its users and surrounding communities. Interested and invested in the intersection where people, information, and technology meet. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Foraged Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Foraged is an e-commerce marketplace for wild & specialty foods focused on building sustainable food systems that center independent food purveyors and local communities. - Architect and implement SaaS tiering to prove willingness of vendors to pay for tooling to investors. Launched product in under 4 weeks and converted ~100 existing vendors responsible for 83% of our GTV within 1 month of rollout, contributing over 70k in monthly SaaS revenue. - Identify opportunities to drive GTV via platform improvements. Document opportunity + architecture proposals, iterate as a team, and implement features including improvements to the vendor onboarding process, a complete overhaul of the local pickup experience, and a new "Featured Products" section on the homepage contributing to 3x YoY increase in revenue. - Integrate with Stripe and Apple Pay in a big bet to increase conversion rates by 63%. ### Senior Software Engineer - Convoy Go @ Convoy Inc Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States Convoy is a trucking logistics platform focused on empowering small to mid sized trucking operations and reducing the environmental impact of the industry as a whole. - Identified a need to empower shippers with information about Convoy trailers. Unified relevant parties in support of the project, ensured alignment on scope/responsibilities/timeline, and launched React dashboard that surfaces trailer telemetry data from third-party hardware sensors. - Architect and oversee the end-to-end execution of a React trailer maintenance portal. Document opportunity, solution, UX, architecture, scope, timeline, risks, dependencies, future extensibilities, and go-to-market plan. Ensure cross-functional (Product, Design, Ops) alignment with relevant internal and external stakeholders. Translate engineering plans into Jira stories and epics. Manage sprints and communicate milestone progress to relevant parties. Contribute to implementation and code reviews of new Postgres schemas, GQL APIs, and React interfaces. Coordinate rollout, successfully increasing the number of usable trailers by 26% <1 mo. post launch. - Mentored junior engineers from diverse educational and career backgrounds. ### Software Engineer @ Convoy Inc Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Incrementally build and rollout React Native trailer inspection workflow for drivers. Incentivized adoption by establishing technical guardrails, implementing damage billbacks, and closing feedback loops on user friction. Successfully generated insights on ~80% of the fleet. - Clarified React Native offer card UI by consolidating “drop and hook” stops into a single, industry-recognized stop resulting in reduced drop-drop truck costs of ~25%. - Launched a new React Native screen that reinforced expectations for power only loads and eliminated complaints of carriers arriving at facilities off-hours. - Overhauled structure of and processes around engineering documentation to make discovering and contributing significantly easier. Increased external teams' ability to independently integrate with and support building Convoy Go features. ### Frontend Engineer @ Pinterest Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Improved usability and maintainability of ad campaign management React UI. - Optimized existing front-end architecture for scalability, maintainability, and performance. - Refactored components to introduce linting, testing, and organizational best practices. ### Software Engineer @ Limeade Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Bellevue, Washington, United States Limeade builds holistic employee well-being software that is dedicated to improving the physical, emotional, interpersonal, financial, at-work, and whole-person well-being of every employee. - Contributed to the SmartHub Integration Center React app that exposes Limeade REST APIs and enables partners to quickly build integrations with the platform - Pioneered effort to increase quality and quantity of unit testing in web and iOS clients - Promoted workplace diversity and inclusion efforts as part of the "Champions" team ### Full Stack Engineer @ LabKey Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 LabKey is a suite of lab software tools developed to advance scientific and clinical research and uncover breakthrough therapies and treatments. - Contributed to the Javascript to Typescript API migration efforts - Pioneered TinyMCE version migration to give text editors a more modern look and feel - Streamlined customer support experience by developing a diagnostic bundle export tool - Expedited HIV diagnoses by implementing support for split infection adjudication flows ### Software Engineer @ Ericsson Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bellevue, WA - Streamlined development process and increased productivity by automating UI testing - Onboarded three employees who later joined the test automation effort - Optimized run time of load and performance testing automation scripts - Created a wearables application to supplement Ericsson learning services ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Technology University of Washington Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emily-zhai-b7b32a103 - Website: https://emilyzhai.vercel.app/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/emilyzhai JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/emilyzhai/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22