# Jennifer Wu

> ex-SWE Intern @ Gem | UWaterloo CS 2023

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

hi! i'm a student in computer science at the university of waterloo, graduating in may this year. at my internships, i've recently been focusing on full-stack web development with technologies such as react, python, and whatever else gets picked up along the way. always open to discussing interesting opportunities or projects :)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer Intern @ Gem
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
- Created a search filter via ElasticSearch to identify candidates that are at least 70% more likely to change jobs by leveraging LinkedIn profile data through Snowflake, SQL, and PostgreSQL

- Investigated solutions to use and move 700+ GB of data across Snowflake and PostgreSQL databases

- Used Python and React to enable autogenerating resumes on demand while investigating best practices around performance and workers with AWS SQS.

- Implemented editing support for notes on candidates using Python, React, GraphQL, and JSS

### Software Engineer Intern @ NerdWallet
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote
- Revamped configurations and code across three major React repositories to support unified tooling, integrating formerly complex tools and enforcing best practices in the process

- Implemented, instrumented, and wrote tests for frontend components with React, Redux, and GraphQL, improving engagement in the Personal Loans PreQual flow and across NerdWallet web articles

### Software Developer Intern @ PagerDuty
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
- Led a revamp of the invoices service to use React and AWS S3, decreasing page loading time by 87% and driving the team’s long term architecture goals

- Migrated standalone apps to render in a container app, improving performance and consistency in UI throughout pagerduty.com

- Investigated various tooling and set up testing and documentation systems for a new component library

### Frontend Developer @ Hack the North
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Toronto
- Created the 2020 website with React and CSS-in-JS to attract an average of 26k monthly pageviews

- Built the 2020 attendee dashboard schedule with React, GraphQL, and CSS-in-JS, receiving 169k pageviews and servicing 3000+ attendees across several timezones over the course of the event

- Built the 2020 hacker application platform, processing 5000+ applications

- Developed components for North, a React component library, with an emphasis on themeability, reliability, and flexibility to allow for reuse across all of Hack the North’s projects

### Software Developer Intern @ PagerDuty
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- Drove discussion between Billing, Frontend, Growth, and Sustainability teams on architecture and business goals to revamp old billing code

- Used React, Redux, and Ruby to revamp the displaying of invoices and incident/alert details, supporting an initiative to refactor functionality from a monolith to new microservices

- Created an Elixir script to securely render ~400k invoices and upload them to an AWS S3 bucket

- Worked on dynamic partitioning in Kafka to reduce strain on partition supervisors caused by excess traffic from individual users

### Full Stack Developer Intern @ FreshBooks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Canada Area
- Improved third-party developer features in JavaScript and Ember.js, interfacing with Design and Product on Developer Portal revamps

- Facilitated discussion and implemented specifications regarding the shift of features (such as browser cross-compatibility and analytics) from an old to a new auth flow in Ruby

- Worked on endpoint functionality in Python, in the process introducing a push notification endpoint and updating the repository to align with JSON:API standards

### Software Developer Intern @ Evertz
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Ontario, Canada
- Created a REST-compliant web client for a cloud orchestration product with Angular 8

- Migrated admin dashboard from Angular 4 to 8, leveraging new features to replace defunct libraries

- Ensured that the web clients and the Spring backend were consistently compatible, particularly during the restructuring of the software to implement asynchronous data handling


## Education
### Bachelor in Computer Science
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jyhwu
- Portfolio: https://jenniferwu.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-29