# Penny Shen

> Software Penguineer 🐧

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/penny

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Notion
Jan 2021 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Medium
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full stack engineer on Team Inbox, where we worked on emails such as the Medium Digest, the biggest distribution channel for Medium.

Major projects:
* DRI (directly responsible individual) for the accessibility initiative. The initiative has two goals: ensure engineering, product, and design consider accessibility during the development cycle, and tackle existing accessibility issues in a prioritized and phased manner.
* Scaled email infrastructure to handle increased load
* Built Medium Newsletters end to end, from the Web UI to email pipeline
* Building a microservice for rendering emails so we can render emails in React instead of the legacy Google Closure

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineering @ Salesforce
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full stack developer in Sales Cloud.
UI developer for the Search Experience team.

### Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineer in Quality on Search

### Associate Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Software engineer in quality on the search team.

### Software Developer @ Soapbox
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Soapbox was a mobile app that provided accessible, personalized information about the 2016 US presidential election.

Built Android UI and designed algorithm for matching user preferences with candidates.

### Creator of 3D puzzle game Block Party @ Rice University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Created 3D puzzle game (3D version of a combination of tetris and tangram) Block Party with 2 other students for a class project. Led the team in development and idea iteration. 

Play it here: http://whateverwhouare.github.io/block_party

### Quality Engineering Intern @ salesforce.com
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Built a framework that simplified and automated the logs charting process.
* Utilized different Javascript frameworks, including d3, nvd3, cubism, and bootstrap, for the front-end.
* Designed database for chart information and processed logs in HBase and OpenTSDB using Phoenix.
* Wrote sample PIG scripts and splunk queries to retrieve logs from the Hadoop cluster and splunk server.

### Research Assistant @ Rice University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Houston, Texas
Multi-Robot System Lab; Led engineering efforts and implemented distributed algorithms for the r-one robots.
* Led and managed the drafting and data collection for the upcoming paper.
* Led the redesign of the infrared communication protocol.

### Developer @ Cleanweb Hackathon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Created an Android application that aims to reduce its users’ AC consumption.
* Implemented the alert system for the application.
* Designed a User-Interface that is simple and appealing.

### Undergraduate Technical Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Folsom, CA
Completed three different prototypes to validate technology and ideas.
* Automated different aspects of the meeting experience by integrating different APIs.
* Tested and demonstrated the utilities of the Intel Solid State Drive management engine.
* Conducted discovery work on 3D cameras, such as the Kinect, in business environments.

### Demo @ The Museum of Science and Industry
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Designed and implemented a demo that was exhibited at the museum for National Robotics Week.
* Illustrated different algorithms on the robots in a way that is appealing to a younger audience.
* Implemented the bump-sensor behavior so it deals with both the algorithm and user command.

### Intern @ AsusTek, Inc
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Developed software for educational robots for children.
* Synchronized a set of random robot dance moves to any given mp3 file in a simulator.
* Translated code for controlling the robot’s dance moves from C++ to Java.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Rice University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/penny-shen-56440759

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Last updated: 2026-04-01