# Helen Deng > Software Engineer at DocSend @ Dropbox Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/helendeng ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ DocSend Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Leadership Development Intern @ RippleMatch Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Selected from a pool of thousands of candidates to work closely with the leaders of RippleMatch’s Leadership Team. Leverage various growth strategies and tools including social media, email marketing, presentations, and peer & faculty member networking to grow the user base and awareness on campus. Strategically assess growth and performance metrics to improve, change and/or help design new growth strategies. ### Research Intern @ SPUR Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Improving mobility options in the Bay Area by identifying opportunities for policy action that can improve people’s lives through reduced emissions, climate pollution, and congestion; and improved transportation options, accessibility, and affordability. Querying the Bing Maps API for desired origin-destination pairs and creating a database with exported JSON files in Python. Using support vector machines to run a regression of how well trip duration and cost predict the choice to drive alone to work. ### Research Associate @ Keltner Lab; University of California, Berkeley Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Researching the structure of human emotion by analyzing behavior through the use and location distribution of emojis in tweets. Web scraping 10 million old tweets with Python code that bypasses the time constraint limitation of the Twitter Official API. Integrating AWS’s Amazon EC2 and RDS services to run all code remotely on a cloud computing platform and efficiently collect data. Analyzing emotion distribution around the world using a 2-D histogram based on user location. Observing 28 human emotions. ### Jr. Data Analyst @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Creating strategic data visualization with Tableau Software to generate reports of financial, business, and student data. Developing and adapting divisional systems with R Scripts to improve department efficiency. Long-term maintenance of the scripts. Using Salesforce /sales data to create and present strategic visuals that aid business partners to make informed business decisions. ### Data Science Academic Intern @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Advised 25 students in weekly lab sections using Jupyter Notebooks for the Foundations of Data Science course at UC Berkeley. Explained topics to students in machine learning, data manipulation, data analysis techniques, and statistical inference. ### Data Science Intern @ Dwelo Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Pitched independent project proposal to CEO and VP of Sales to streamline their sales processes with automatic form generation. Automatic outputs written from JavaScript coding with Google Suite. Updated their original process of manually filling out fields. Process shortened from 30 minutes to less than 1 minute by easily choosing the appropriate report from a list of choices. ### Director of Trek @ FEMTech Berkeley Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Project lead for building collaborative connections with Silicon Valley tech companies to organize off-campus "Treks". ### Data Analyst Intern @ Dwelo Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Transferred raw company data from Salesforce into Google spreadsheets to easily find specific community information. Manipulated and sorted data with Excel to provide sales with a clearer representation of various community penetration trends. ### Private Tutor @ 7EDU Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cupertino, California Virtually preparing students for AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, SAT/ACT, and SAT Subject Tests. ### Data Technician @ TranSmart Technologies, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Madison, Wisconsin Used traffic camera footage to collect data of Midwestern heavy traffic intersections. Data entered with a four-way counter. Provided insight towards advanced, cost-effective traffic operations/engineering solutions to public agencies and the private sector. ### Research Intern @ University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Biochemistry Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Madison, Wisconsin Coauthor of published ACS Chemical Biology research paper. Tested the efficacy of previously identified UGM-inhibitors in C. elegans. Completed research project under supervision of Professor Laura Kiessling and Alexander Justen in the Department of Biochemistry at UW-Madison. ### Summer Research Intern @ University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Biochemistry Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Madison, Wisconsin Interned in the Pagliarini Lab during the summer. Learned and utilized lab procedures towards contribution of a research project under the supervision of a graduate student. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### High School Dual Enrollment Student University of Wisconsin-Madison ### High School Madison West High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hdeng68 --- Source: https://flows.cv/helendeng JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/helendeng/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29