# Michelle Tang

> Software Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michelletang1

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Signal Messenger
Jan 2024 – Present

### Android Engineer @ HalloApp
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Maintain and release an application with 500k+ downloads on Google Play, averaging a crash-free user rate of 99.92%
- Designed and implemented a friendship model for a user base of 50,000 people
- Built ML pipeline using Google’s ML Image Classification model to cluster user photos based on locations and time
- Created a username/hashcash registration system with additional phone number verification via OTP
- Implemented real-time updates of a user’s feed, including comments, reactions, or deletions
- Expanded user reporting system by removing posts from public feed and preventing future occurrences

### Server Intern @ HalloApp
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Multiple improvement to app's push notification system: tracking delivery times and success rates, developing an alert/backup system for failed pushes, and parallelizing tasks using worker pools
- Expanded usage of Google's libphonenumber library to include processing of VoIP and fixed-line numbers

### Academic Tutor & Grader @ New York University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
Tutored students in a variety of data structures: heaps, trees, hashmaps, linked list, etc. by demonstrating their creation, functionality, and efficiency.

### Lab Assistant - Web Application Developer @ New York University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
- Develop the front-end of a contact application by using JavaScript to make XMLHttpRequests using Ajax and jQuery 
- Design a processing feature to create, edit, and remove contacts in Perl, Catalyst, and SQL in a team of three people
- Update ten applications to compile with new accessibility standards while maintaining server functionality

### Quality Assurance Specialist @ Hand In Hand Development, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
• Devise technological solutions to tackle quality assurance-related queries regarding regulatory compliance.
    • Track and review sensitive health information and procedures to ensure compliance with state regulations

### Software Engineer Intern @ HalloApp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Implemented functionality of two SMS gateways to improve delivery of one-time passwords by 70% in Erlang
- Optimized Redis query patterns resulting in a 100% increase in operations per second
- Converted the application into a Docker image to standardize usage and allow for more efficient deployment and scaling

### Data Science Intern @ Kalotay Analytics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
Used Python pandas to clean up data and allow for filters in order to later be used in the creation of bond curves.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
New York University

### Stuyvesant High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tangym27

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Last updated: 2026-04-10