# Marissa Shieh

> Software Engineer at Scribd

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Scribd
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco

### Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full-stack time conversion application.

-Built a full-stack application using Moment.js, allowing users to convert times in different time zones to determine ideal communication hours. 

-Utilized cookies to remember users, allowing them to save searches without having to sign in.

### Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full-stack application of a housing rental service.

-Architected the reviews component in React, creating reusable UI components including pagination, search functionality, and an overall star rating for the business.

-Deployed component with Docker and AWS, allowing scalability of service.

-Optimized page load time by 30% using Brotli text compression, resulting in a load time of 0.7s.

### Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Financial application for buying and selling stocks. 

-Implemented NGINX load balancing, horizontal scaling, and Redis caching, resulting in a throughput of 1,200 requests per second, a latency of 120 ms, and a 0.0% error rate.

-Stress-tested service using Loader.io and k6.io, monitored response times, bottlenecks, and throughput using New Relic.

### Radio news intern, On-call producer @ KQED
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
As a general assignment reporter, I researched, wrote, and voiced several newscasts daily. 

This included interviewing Congressional House Representatives, activists, and everyday people. I covered the Marriott workers' strike for better wages, a proposal to expand San Francisco's conservatorship laws, the closing of an influential Chicano art gallery, and more.

I received a KQED Golden Mic award for my reporting on the effects of wildfire smoke on San Francisco's air quality.

### Freelance Science Writer and Radio Journalist @ Self-Employed
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
I wrote stories for print and radio, ran tape-syncs, and transcribed for large radio shows.

My work appeared in Scientific American's podcast, Scholastic's in-class math magazines, and KALW.

### SuperScience and DynaMath Intern @ Scholastic
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
I worked with Scholastic's in-class elementary school magazines, DynaMath and SuperScience. I wrote articles, created student worksheets, and designed hands-on experiments. While copy editing, I caught several mistakes before they went to print.

### Editorial Intern @ Popular Science
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
I wrote for Popular Science's magazine and website, covering new research on ancient crocodile teeth, using fluorescence to detect whisky fraud, and what starlet sea anemones can tell us about limb regeneration. I also worked on DIY articles on making your own supercooled water, an infographic on the history of sneakers, and fact-checked articles for the print magazine.

### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Williams College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### Chemistry Research @ Williams College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014


## Education
### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive
Hack Reactor

### Master of Arts (M.A.) in Concentration in Science, Health, Environmental Journalism
New York University

### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Chemistry
Williams College

### Townsend Harris High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11