# Helena Gao

> Software Engineer @ Atlassian

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Atlassian
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Junior Software Engineer @ Atlassian
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Incubator Director @ Disruption Lab at Gies
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
Managing a team of 4 student instructors to create 2 educational tracks (PM, Technical Interview Prep) to teach to UIUC students as part of Gies’s Incubator Program

### Project Manager @ Disruption Lab at Gies
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
• Lead a team of 6 student engineers on a web development project for the Gies college 
 that will improve the way in which professors/instructors upload/search for media assets.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
•	Implemented a new feature using React for Meta’s Creator Studio that enables auto A/B testing to be used by 1000+ Facebook pages daily
•	Understood shortcomings of previous architecture for fetching data metrics for an internal tool and built out a new infrastructure that improved page loading speed by 96%

### Co President @ BUILT BY GIRLS - UIUC
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Champaign, Illinois, United States

### Vice President @ BUILT BY GIRLS - UIUC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Champaign, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
•	Designed and developed 3 user-facing features for JPMC eWallet team using React that matches business specifications
•	Built RESTful APIs in Spring for a backend micro-service to manage CRUD operations performed by the new frontend features

### Project Manager @ Disruption Lab at Gies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
•	Lead a team of 3 students to create a prototype ‘datahub’ that leverages AWS technologies 
•	Tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time with the desired results

### Enterprise Technology Intern @ State Farm ®
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
• Collaborated within an Agile team structure to assist in developing a web application intended for 19,000
State Farm Agents
• Gained familiarity with framework for front end, back end development, and datastore (PostgreSQL) to
create the best implementation of the product
• Utilized React to deliver cutting-edge user interfaces and components

### Website Content / Migration Specialist Intern @ ILLINOIS ATLAS Teaching and Learning with Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
• Built a VR Catalog landing page for the ATLAS website to show the virtual reality equipment that are
available for checkout in the LAS college
• Used web development tools such as Drupal
• Worked with clients on website evaluation and content strategy to increase engagement activity on the page

### Software Engineer Team Member @ GitHub
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Naperville, IL
•Developed a GitHub App using Probot that allows users to specify the number of approved pull request reviews a request has before allowed to merge
• Gained familiarity with deploying Node.js app on Heroku


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Linguistics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/helena-gao-8433a9192

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Last updated: 2026-03-31