# Ria Pan

> Software Engineer at Amazon Pay

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/riapan

Fun and creative full-stack/backend engineers with excellent recommendations (see below)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Bolt
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Software Engineer @ IXL Learning
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full-stack:
- Led a full-stack team of 5 people to design and develop cross-platform interactive components that are used in problem generators to present visual explanations or grading of problems, for facilitating students from Pre-K to 12th grade practicing and studying 
Back-end:
-  Collaborated with QA, Curriculum Designers, UX designers and front end team to design and implement backend audio infrastructure that support text-to-speech and recorded audio in IXL’s main product; upgraded pre-existing backend API to meet new demands and maintained its previous functionality; Write specific design and usage guide to facilitate future engineering to understand the complex audio system
- Used Struts, ANTLR, Handlebars.js and Java to upgrade current email infrastructure to supports paths in context, which enables more targeted and personalized business emails, increases the variability of email templates and facilitates email rendering tool testing; Work with cross-team members to refactor internal emails to be more modularized and testable.  
- Work with Curriculum Designers to develop student-practicing questions in various subjects that powers the real time generation of IXL’s core content; participated in the first dev team that introduced unit test into question generation process and improved code reliability and performance 
Front-end: 
- Identify flawed front-end components in production and upgrade them to be responsive using React so that they can be rendered well on a variety of devices and window with different screen sizes

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Department of Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Construct visual descriptions for assignments by using Python or MATLAB to facilitate students understanding fundamental concepts and practicing programming skills

### Guzheng Performer @ RTP Chinese Music Instruments Ensemble
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Perform and compete in various events, including the CAFA-NC Chinese New Year Gala at both Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

### Peer Tutor @ Math Help Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Modeled problem-solving techniques and worked closely with students requesting aid on advanced mathematics topics
Motivated students to utilize their full potential to achieve academic goals

### Laboratory Technician @ Department of Biology at Denison University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Denison University
Collected and managed data of daily functions of experimental machines
Recommended improvements to supply ordering and inventory management that increased  efficiency and lowered costs 
Maintained lab equipment, including cleaning, repairing and calibration


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Statistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

### Mathematics
Denison University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/riapan112358

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Last updated: 2026-04-01