# Michelle Lum

> Software Engineer @ Stripe

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michellelum

Currently building Link at Stripe.
Previously at Google and the New York Times.
mlum123.github.io/portfolio

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2023 – Present
Spent 1 year moonlighting as an accountant on Stripe Revenue Recognition, then another working on key infrastructure to power Stripe Billing. Now building Link.

### Interactive News Intern @ The New York Times
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Powered reader-sourced reporting and coverage of the 2023 Women's World Cup.
Won Most Innovative and Most Disruptive at NYT Maker Week 2023.

Interactive News Team: https://github.com/newsdev/about-int

Select work:
• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/womens-world-cup-standings.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/sports/soccer/womens-world-cup-schedule.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/sports/world-cup/womens-world-cup-bracket.html

### Harvey Mudd College Nordstrom Clinic Project Manager @ Nordstrom
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Led senior capstone project with the Nordstrom Search team, developing ML pipeline to assess the relevance of Nordstrom's search results in comparison to those of other retailers.

https://www.hmc.edu/clinic/

### NLP Research Assistant @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Claremont, California, United States
Applied NLP techniques to the study of economic text, analyzing corporate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as corporate social responsibility messaging on Twitter. Conferences: TADA 2023 and FinNLP-KDF-ECONLP 2024.

https://aclanthology.org/2024.finnlp-1.20
https://sites.google.com/g.hmc.edu/econtext/home

### Computer Science Grader and Tutor @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Claremont, California, United States
• Introduction to Computer Science (CSCI 5) - Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022
• Data Structures & Program Development (CSCI 70) - Spring 2021
• Programming Languages (CSCI 131) - Spring 2022, Spring 2023

### Communications Office Photographer @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Claremont, California, United States
https://magazine.hmc.edu/

### Admissions Tour Guide @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Claremont, California, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ Stripe
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Built proof-of-concept to connect Stripe Invoicing and Stripe Bill Pay, and craft a seamless Stripe-to-Stripe experience.

### STEP Intern @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Introduced new data to Google Ads Keyword Planner to help advertisers make better informed keyword selection decisions for search campaigns. Also moderated an Intern Leadership Speaker Series talk with Vint Cerf, father of the Internet and Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, attended by 300+ interns.

### Opinions Editor @ The Student Life Newspaper
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Claremont, California, United States
The student newspaper of the Claremont Colleges.
https://tsl.news/author/michelle-lum/

### News Editor @ The Student Life Newspaper
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Claremont, California, United States

### Opinions Writer @ The Student Life Newspaper
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Claremont, California, United States

### Software Development Intern @ Centrify Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Team Member @ Chipotle Mexican Grill
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cupertino, California, United States


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Media Studies
Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

### Lynbrook High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michelle-lum-a4177518a

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Last updated: 2026-03-22