# Jessica Kuang

> Software Engineer at Optum

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jessicakuang

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Optum
Jan 2023 – Present
- OptumCare API
- Enterprise Device Gateway

### Software Engineer Intern @ Cloud Brigade
Jan 2022 – Present
- Designed, implemented, and tested a web app with 2 co-interns to observe digital habits and analyze workloads of employees to help them improve their productivity, all hosted on AWS Amplify.
- Used React, AWS AppSync, AWS DynamoDB, to allow users to categorize time entries data on a simple clean datatable and render an analytics dashboard.
- Collected data from various third-party APIs such as Gmail API and Zoom API and stored in AWS S3 buckets.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Tech4Good @ UCSC
Jan 2021 – Present
- Led a team of 10 members developing UI components for Gratitude, a full-stack web app that allows users to send collective thank you cards using Angular, TypeScript, HTML, and Sass.
- Implemented web pages to fetch data from Firebase and manage frontend state using the NgRX library.
- Coordinated with lab professor, UI designers, and backend team to organize milestones and completion dates for features of the app.

### Headstarter Fellow @ Headstarter
Jan 2022 – Present
- Developed projects from design to deployment using MVC design patterns.
- Coached by Amazon, Google, and Bloomberg engineers on CI/CD, Git, Agile, and Microservice patterns.

### Python Instructor @ Mission Bit
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- Taught Python fundamentals to local high school students.

### Multimedia Assistant @ UCSC Student Union Assembly
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Social Media Chair @ UCSC Society of Women Engineers
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Secretary 2021-2022

### Public Relations Member @ GraceHacks
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Reached out and connected with workshop leads, mentors, and judges for a hackathon.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessica-kuang-716b891a9
- Portfolio: https://jekuang3.github.io/portfolio-website/

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Last updated: 2026-04-10