# Justin Bai

> SWE @ Figma

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/justinbai1

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## Work Experience
### Software Engineer (Growth Platform Team) @ Figma
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Successfully launched Spanish (Spain), Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese for in-product localization, resulting in over $1 million in ARR 6 months after release
- Contributed efforts towards localizing the Figma Community experience, including developing localized sitemaps for high value pages, resulting in 150+% in international user growth
- Developed a linting solution to target untranslated string literals in the UI, reducing untranslated string issues by 33%, and saving numerous IDDs from bug fixes.

### Course Producer: CSCI 104 (Data Structures and Object Oriented Design) @ University of Southern California
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Figma
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Overhauled the education plan (EDU) sign-up form by integrating additional verification questions with React, and validating entries with a Ruby/Sinatra API, increasing friction for dishonest users, and reducing ineligible sign-ups by 50%
- Modified the existing EDU data model to track plan types (Initial 2-year or recurring 1-year plan) in order to calculate expiration date, enabling EDU plans to automatically expire and save over $1 million in ARR
- Developed a daily asynchronous service in Ruby/Sinatra to notify 1000+ users of impending EDU account expiration via email, along with re-enabling the EDU plan sign-up form for re-verification
- Delivered an additional change to add a sharing attribution query to proto file URLs, enabling data scientists to see the sharer of a URL, allowing them to analyze trends regarding file-sharing behavior
- Ordered 5 diet cokes for breakfast every day through the internal meal ordering tool

### Course Producer: CSCI 103 (Introduction to C++ Programming) @ University of Southern California
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Led weekly lab sessions to teach students on C++ programming topics such as debugging with gdb/valgrind, pointers, class hierarchies and object-oriented design.
- Held weekly office hours to guide student understanding of lecture material and programming assignments, including advanced topics like recursion and linked-lists.
- Reported kids who used ChatGPT on their midterms 💀.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
- Developed a dynamic pricing system, with Hack (PHP) to be used by 100,000+ products, which automatically changes the price of a product based on demand
- Modified the billing code to track the current number of active quotes, effectively using it as a proxy for demand, and created a new data model for a dynamic pricing strategy, connecting it to the existing digital product infrastructure
- Enhanced the onboarding API to allow 50,000+ creators to set dynamic pricing strategies for their digital products, enabling them to optimize revenue potential and offer flexible pricing options to customers
- Delivered an additional change to support auto purchase retries and refunds in the event of a billing processing failure for non-consumable products
- Ate free lunch and dinner at the office everyday


## Education
### Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
University of Southern California


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05