# Shirley W.

> Software Engineer at Intuit

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

Languages and Frameworks: JavaScript (ES6), Typescript, React, HTML, CSS, Styled Components, Express, Node.js, Jest, Enzyme, Mocha, Chai, jQuery

Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Technologies & concepts: Docker, AWS (EC2, S3). MVC design pattern, object oriented programming, legacy javascript code, RESTful APIs, AJAX, callbacks & promises, hooks, responsive design

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Intuit
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Full-Stack Software Engineer - Fireflies Lodge @ GitHub Portfolio
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Developed an interactive UI which dynamically renders gallery and image carousel modal by using flexbox and React’s styled-components
• Implemented a lightweight app with hooks by encapsulating business logic in functional components
• Built a Express proxy server that bridges API routes to serve up multiple microservices
• Containerized the MERN stack with Docker and served from EC2 for efficient deployment and reliability
• Achieved a Google PSI score of 98 by holding minimal states in components 
• Utilized Jest and enzyme testing environment to achieve ~80% code coverage

### Backend Software Engineer - Vacation Homes App System Design @ GitHub Portfolio
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed and implemented the microservice's back-end system architecture to handle over 1000 RPS on AWS t2.micro with <1% error rate on a 120million rows data pool in PostgreSQL.
• Reduced the response latency from ~5000ms to 63ms by implementing server caching configuration and hosting Nginx as the load balancer to distribute requests across horizontally scaled servers sequentially.
• Stress tested on Loader.io with simulated CRUD operations and identified bottlenecks on new Relic by observing throughput, error rate, Apdex, database query time.

### Landscape Designer @ Blasen Landscape Architecture
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Marin County, California, United States

### Civil CAD Drafter @ Arcadia, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area

### Interior Design Intern @ UC Davis Student Housing and Dining Services
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Davis, CA


## Education
### Computer Software Engineering
Hack Reactor
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor’s Degree in Design
University of California, Davis
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shirley-wu2
- GitHub: https://github.com/shirleysw2020

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Last updated: 2026-03-22