# Jialu Deng

> Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jialu

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ InsightRX
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Fitbit Data Storage

### Software Engineer @ Twilio Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Voice Connectivity Edge

### Software Engineer Apprentice @ Twilio Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Software Engineering Immersive Resident @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
- Spearheaded the Diversity and Inclusion program by organizing mentorship program, alumni panel, and networking events to help underrepresented students navigate the tech industry
- Provided technical guidance for students in CS fundamentals and full-stack engineering concepts through code reviews and live debugging sessions

### Software Engineer - ARTy @ Personal Projects
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Developed full-stack web app for patients to easily check medication schedule, look up info and usage, and upload dosing status
- Built reusable front-end components and stateful logic with React Hooks
- Managed user authentication and supported CRUD operation in RESTful API architecture with Django for improved security and reliability

### Software Engineer - Vacation Home Rental @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Designed microservice to support 4000 requests per second with < 100ms latency and 0% error rate by horizontally scaling web servers with NGINX load balancer, Redis cache, and PostgreSQL 
- Optimized PostgreSQL queries by hash indexing, vacuuming, connection pooling, config tuning, and vertically scaling to improve complex query reading speed from >100ms to <35ms
- Performed load testings with Loader.io to simulate sustained high traffic load for pinpointing app-wide performance bottlenecks

### Software Engineer - Real Estate Price Visualizer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Implemented real estate pricing module using React and styled-components to deliver modular UI/UX
- Generated interactive visualizations with SVG for fast and intuitive line graphs depicting real estate price changes over time
- Deployed and integrated microservices via proxy server hosted on AWS EC2  in Docker containers

### Assistant Pharmacy Manager, HIV Specialty @ Walgreens Boots Alliance
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
- Implemented new processes to boost patient satisfaction score by > 30% in 2 months by ​identifying areas of inefficiency in workflow, proposing steps for optimization​, and empowering staff through training and motivating.
- Launched educational programs on specialty pharmacy topics including PrEP/PEP and specialty medication distribution

### Staff Pharmacist, Fertility, Cystic Fibrosis, and Oncology Specialty @ Walgreens Boots Alliance
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California

### Staff Pharmacist @ Walgreens Boots Alliance
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Oakland, California


## Education
### Doctor of Pharmacy in Pharmacy
Purdue University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2016

### Software Engineering
Hack Reactor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jialudeng

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Source: https://flows.cv/jialu
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jialu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22