# Meryl Wang > MIT 2020 | Computer Science B.S. Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/merylwang ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Threads Jan 2023 – Present At Threads(.com), I developed full-stack working with TypeScript, MySQL, etc. Moreover, I had the opportunity to tap into my product-thinking skills, collaborating with teammates to lead the design and implementation of several features and projects. • Spearheaded product design and technical implementation of the chat digest feature, substantially improving user engagement and retention • Investigated and implemented improvements to file uploads feature, decreasing overall upload times by >3x • Facilitated cross-functional collaboration with marketing and external customer support teams to integrate and launch email drip system • Collaborated with Engineering and Marketing teams to brainstorm, design, and implement improvements to the new user onboarding experience ### Software Engineer @ Ovation Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States At Ovation, I was a full-stack software engineer on the LIMS product from June 2020 to Dec 2021, delivering numerous features using EmberJS, Ruby on Rails, and MySQL. I learned how to be part of a scrum team working in sprints using Atlassian (Agile using Jira). Eager to learn, I joined the DevOps team from Dec 2021 to Jan 2023. There, I learned many new skills: managing infrastructure and network using AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, etc.) and Terraform, monitoring performance via CloudWatch, improving the deployment (CI/CD) pipeline using Github Actions, as well as managing credentials using Auth0. Meanwhile, I also was in the rotation as a support/oncall engineer, responding to emergencies and client requests, as well as communicating effectively with the Customer Success team and the rest of the engineering team. Lastly, I worked on a Data Querying tool to help query and present millions of rows of data. As a developer, I contributed to designing a smooth, error-prone user experience as well as implementing features for the UI using React and TypeScript. ### Content Contributor @ Kite Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States Kite.com hosted Kite Answers, a collection of high-quality answers to curated programming questions. Kite Answers was similar to Stack Overflow. Unlike SO where posts are made and built by crowd-sourced answers, Kite Answers provided a curated selection of common programming questions, and provided concise solutions and explanations written by a collection of authors. I authored around 100 code solutions and explanations for questions in Python. ### Software EngIntern @ Ovation.io Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Ovation (https://www.ovation.io/) provides a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) software as a service. As an full-stack software engineer intern, I designed and implemented batch upload & download features for the UI and backend, as well as a re-usable CSV validator component that validates the end-user's input files, and provides helpful messages to make sure the user experience is smooth and error-proof. ### Software Intern @ ConquerX Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts ConquerX was a startup aiming to help identify major cancer types using biomarker and MetaCHIP technology. As a software development intern, I data-scraped selected public biomarker databases using Python Selenium, a data-scraping tool Secondly, I designed and implemented an optimal NoSQL database to store and retrieve the scraped data using MongoDB. Lastly, I presented the data via an interactive web-app that lets users filter large amounts of biomarker data using desired selectors, such as cancer type. This helped the lab side identify which biomarkers might be helpful toward identifying early cancer detection. ### Research Intern @ National Cancer Institute (NCI) Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Frederick, Maryland Returning as a bioinformatics intern to NCI, I continued previous research, the findings of which was published to the Journal of Molecular Recognition and was cited in further antibody design studies. ### Research Intern @ National Cancer Institute (NCI) Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Frederick, MD 1) Search cancer mutational databases and picking oncogenic proteins with a large number of mutations. In parallel, search databases of protein-protein interactions to pick the interactions of these proteins in the cell. The protein is likely to have many interactions either overlapping each other or at distinct sites. 2) Search the protein structural (largely X-ray and NMR) database to pick proteins which have 3-D structures solved experimentally. For the protein without known structure, we concentrate on protein sequence analysis. For the protein with known structure, we analyze both protein sequences and protein structures. Our aim is to map the mutations on the structures and see which mutations fall at the protein-protein interfaces of these proteins. 3) Using computational biology / Bioinformatics approaches, such as sequence alignment, protein structure prediction, and molecular dynamics simulation tools to investifate the structure and function relationship of proteins involved in cancer and immunological pathways. Search protein sequence database to examine the correlation between cancer and immunological mutations with protein evolution, for (a) proteins that bear the cancer and immunological mutations and (b) proteins interact with the mutated proteins. 4) Write computer programs to examine and interactively display the correlation between cancer mutation with protein evolution. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Frederick high school ### Urbana High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/merylw --- Source: https://flows.cv/merylwang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/merylwang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-28