# Michelle Jung

> Tech | Engineering & Product

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

Product-minded engineer with an anthropology background.

I love the art & science of learning people, practiced in intentionality in the growth & direction of a product. I value leading movement with curiosity and questions, then following with high-quality delivery and iterative output.

Well-versed in owning the full developmental process, from defining user need to driving high-impact features into production.

Curious & passionate about using my background in linguistic anthropology to curate the language of AI so it might mirror the nuances of the human language.

## Work Experience
### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Ternary Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
• Designed & engineered multiple major-impact features, securing deals with major companies; leading as the company’s selling point for & garnering sales leads from FinOps X Conference 2023; and receiving positive feedback for digestible & intuitive designs.

• Driver of development process both independently & collaboratively - prioritized maximal-value features, conducted user interviews, & fully conceived user stories from vague product specs.

• Engineering contributions include: Revised data models & Cube queries to support custom user needs; Building UI components that would ease integrating the features into all pages of the app, contributing to the codebase UI library that other engineers used; Implementing entirely new logic to allow users to view their cloud financial data and track their spending issues.

### Frontend Developer @ Project Catwalk
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Designed & built a clean, modern interface for a modularized microservice that dynamically responds to customer input, using React components, CSS Modules/Flexbox, and Express routing to RESTful API calls
• Optimized accessibility recommendations for production application to 90+ Lighthouse scoring
• Utilized a TDD approach with Jest and Enzyme to ensure code coverage
• Integrated CircleCI into Git Feature Branch Workflow to check consistency between pull requests

### Back End Engineer @ Project Atelier
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Architected a multi-layer back end system using Express and an API containing 18 million rows of CSV data
• Reduced initial query speed from 4000ms to 7ms (-99.825%) by indexing and processing data on Node levels to return data in client’s anticipated shape- nested JSON objects
• Scaled and stress-tested the system locally under 1000+ rps using K6/New Relic to simulate production traffic to identify bottlenecks which reduced latency to 129ms per HTTP request with 0% error rate
• Deployed two isolated MySQL database and Node server AWS EC2 instances  to increase overall performance with scalability and CPU usage

### Full Stack Engineer & Product Owner @ Project Local Voice
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Led development process from fleshing out proposal and user stories given client requirements, to designing UI wireframes on Figma and planning back end architecture, to modifying features based on user feedback sessions 
• Facilitated client correspondence, standup meetings, and collaboration efforts of team of 7 engineers, adopting Agile methodology and Trello ticket system
• Implemented a Google Maps API displaying issue markers within 5-mile radius of current or entered location, each clickable for its details persisted in MySQL database

### Intern @ The A21 Campaign
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Administrative Assistant @ UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Corporate Trainer @ Creamistry
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Anthropology, Global Health Minor
UCLA

### Software Engineering
Hack Reactor


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michellekang2

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Last updated: 2026-03-29