# Nadin Tamer

> Software Engineer @ Figma

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Head TA @ Code in Place
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### CS106 Section Leader @ Stanford University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Lead weekly discussion section to 12 students for Stanford's introductory CS courses
- Grade student assignments & host interactive grading (IG) sessions to share feedback; provide debugging & conceptual help at weekly office hours
- Teach concepts including programming fundamentals, object-oriented programming, data structures, and recursion

### Software Engineering Intern @ Figma
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Text & Vector team

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Stanford HCI Group
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Implemented a sequencing game from scratch for an iOS app that teaches children ages 5-8 computational thinking concepts through storytelling
- Conducted user studies with children to improve the app UI/UX and evaluate its effectiveness
- Received “Outstanding Poster Award” at the CURIS 2020 poster session (awarded to 4 teams out of 100+)
- Won Honorable Mention Publication (Top 5%): "StoryCoder: Teaching Computational Thinking Concepts Through Storytelling in a Voice-Guided App for Children" in ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

### CS 47 Co-Instructor @ Stanford University School of Engineering
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- Teach lectures, grade assignments, and host office hours for CS 47: Cross-Platform Mobile Development with React Native

### Software Engineering Intern (FBU) @ Facebook
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Android track (Dating Engagement Team)
- Created Lexis, an Android language-learning app that helps users immerse themselves in their target language by seeing translated words in context and playing vocabulary games; used Wikipedia, NYTimes, Google Cloud Translation & NLP APIs
- Developed an interactive, computer-generated word search puzzle & swipeable flashcards for fun vocabulary practice
- Built an Instagram clone with a custom backend, a Twitter clone using Twitter’s API, a movie-viewing app, and a to-do list app

### Volunteer Content Creator @ TurkishKit
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Wrote articles in Turkish about iOS programming and design principles on TurkishKit's Medium blog


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science with Distinction
Stanford University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nadintamer
- Website: https://nadintamer.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22