# Sophia Feng

> Engineer, Author, Musician

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

Building payments to power enterprise spending.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Payments @ Zip
Jan 2022 – Present
2nd engineer on Payments Platform. Built global payment processing from $0 -> $ x billions.

Procurement to Payments. Direct debit. Bank transfers. Payouts. Foreign exchanges. Global bank info collection and validation. Cross-border money movement. Integration with payment providers. Payment risk engine. Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). Stripe API. Credit card transactions.

### Published Author @ Freelance (Self employed)
Jan 2017 – Present
I have been an influencer on a creative social-network with 30000 followers.
I hosted a topic on SNS that attracted 15 million views.
I published many posts with 100+k views. 
I published fiction, prose and poetry on Shanghai Book Review, American Poetry Review (top 2 literary magazine in poetry), etc.
I performed standup comedy in a 800-seat auditorium. 
Was guest speaker to various podcasts, talks, etc.

### Staff Software Engineer - Payments @ Fast
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Payments platform and money movement to power e-commerce.
Credit card transactions. Stripe APIs.

Idempotency and consistency in payments platform. 

Voted most fun person to work with by a team member.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
Large scale, high traffic (100+M daily views) web applications. Cloud Engineering. Machine learning powered Image Search. Product User Experience. Cross-platform Desktop App. File navigation and retrieval. 

Project management. Cross-team collaboration. Mentoring. Coaching.

### Software Engineer - Full Stack @ Airbnb
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Enterprise developer API integration. API infra rate limiting. Service Oriented High Scale Web Application (SOA). ElasticSearch. Mobile backend. Airflow data pipeline. A/B testing user experiments. Growth/Acquisition engineering. GDPR user data protection compliance. React, Redux, Ruby on Rails.

### Software Engineer - Data Infra @ Hortonworks
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Big data infrastructure automation. High-availability distributed system.

Hadoop, MapReduce, HBase, Zookeeper, Open Stack, EC2.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate in Materials Science & Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physics
Peking University

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Materials Science  & Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

### IARU scholoarship program in Asian Studies
National University of Singapore


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22