# Sophia Dao

> Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Location: Greater Houston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sophiadao

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Prowler
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer @ Mammoth
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer @ Fable
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote
- Responsible for creating and maintaining the web's most powerful motion-design SaaS application
- Lead engineer on Fable's Design System, a fast-tracked project with C level visibility that overhauled the application's core platform and addressed major user pain points to increase user adoption
- Collaborated with the design team to launch a Starter Library, fixing the issue of low user engagement by enabling users to build prototypes with one click similar to Canva and increasing time spent in app

### Senior Software Engineer @ Beachbody
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
- React engineer for beachbodyondemand.com - a streaming app with over 2 million subscribers that provides interactive live streaming workouts and hundreds of on-demand workouts
- Core member of BODi, the #1 strategic initiative for Beachbody in 2021 and first ever real time video streaming fitness platform that incorporated the user’s video stream to deliver an immersive virtual / in-person experience
- Refactored major portions of the core codebase to maximize code reusability, optimize performance, and ensure 100% test coverage

### UX Developer @ Mongoose
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Remote
- Hybrid UI/UX designer and front-end engineer for higher education’s premier texting platform Cadence
- Critical member of both user experience and engineering teams and was involved in the product
development process from defining user needs to writing stories and planning the product roadmap, wireframing, developing the front-end, writing unit tests, and defining API contracts and optimizing API strategy; used Vue and AngularJS (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Created reusable stateful and stateless components in Storybook

### Technical Expert @ Thinkful
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Remote
- Educator for an immersive full stack software engineering and design program. Set and maintained high levels of quality by evaluating/grading other mentors performance with their students
- Helped more than 100 students as a mentor, grader, evaluator, trainer, and through office hours

### Software Engineer II @ Beachbody
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Santa Monica, California
- Lead for the launch of coredeforce.com in UK and CAN, the highest priority Beachbody product of 2016
- Created Beachbody’s internal Code Standards Committee to define guidelines for all engineers and best practices to decrease technical debt and increase long term productivity by improving code consistency
- Key member of Beachbody’s video streaming platform team
- Ensured 100% test coverage on product pages, account pages, user flows, video flows, and purchase flows
- Developed responsive and adaptive sell pages, upsells/downsells, landing pages, and similar properties
using HTML, CSS (Sass), and jQuery on the Kibo ecommerce platform

### UI Engineer @ Whalerock Industries
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | West Hollywood, California
- Front-end engineer for moviefone.com, which garners over 2 million hits monthly
- Lead email developer for multiple key, high-visibility and high-profile clients (Jenner, Kardashian, Club
MomMe)

### Front End Web Developer @ Yammer, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California
- Developed major projects for Yammer including Marketing Site, Blog, and Success Center
- Co-lead for Marketing Site, Marketing team’s largest project with 400,000+ monthly views
- Lead for Yammer blog and Yammer Success Center which accounts for 11% of all traffic to about.yammer.com and helped 1000’s of customers activate and use Yammer successfully
- Built over 100 Microsoft emails, including the Office for iOS app launch, with 100% design accuracy and
responsiveness on all major desktop, mobile, and tablet devices
- Launched search functionality after A/B testing to measure impact on engagement and sign-up

### Front End Web Developer @ Mohawk Digital
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Los Angeles, CA
- Worked closely with back-end teams to develop large-scale, mobile-responsive projects for various clients such as Samsung, Global Citizen, and Cellairis
- Front-end lead for Global Citizen – a major project which received over 1 million hits in the first month

### Web Developer @ Trailer Park
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Hollywood, CA
- Transformed static .pdf content into fully functional iPad friendly ebooks for Apple
- Used HTML and CSS to style ~500 pages for proper display in iPad format

### Communications Specialist & Web Designer @ CNOA
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Los Angeles, CA
- Refreshed company brand and online presence via updated logos and reconstructed website
- Led marketing efforts online, in print, and at industry conferences
- Designed, developed, and distributed newsletters to multiple targeted email lists
- Integrated Google AdSense to monetize web traffic and increase advertising revenue


## Education
### BA in Music, Business Management Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz

### MFA in Interaction & UI/UX Design
Academy of Art University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22