# Sophia Wang

> Software Engineer at Affinity

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

Double majoring in Computer Science and Statistics and Data Science.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Affinity.co
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Data Platform Intern @ Visa
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Identified string-matching algorithms for consumer name similarity analysis
Implemented and analyzed algorithms’ accuracy to perform consumer entity resolution in Identity Graph
Computed operational metrics like data size/count to understand Identity Graph growth rate for storage capacity computation in Hadoop clusters
Published operational metrics in Grafana, Power BI, and Tableau

### Research Assistant @ The University of Arizona College of Nursing
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Tucson, Arizona, United States
Recoding free response answers of over 2000 survey respondents to a nurse pain survey to numerical values using Python for easier data analysis

### Database Intern @ HealthTrio, LLC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Tucson, Arizona, United States
Rewriting a job in the ETL process that reduced the runtime from 6 hours to 2.5 hours and the shortened rebuild time of elastic search from 8 hours to 4 hours
Refactoring legacy SQL stored procedures and scripts to make them more dynamic and optimized
Converting sql scripts into Azure Data Studio notebooks to allow nontechnical users to run code
Configuring polybase to explore potential benefits of adopting MongoDB

### Statistics REU in SIgnal Detection @ University of Arizona
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Tucson, Arizona
Collaborating with a professor to develop code in R that can detect signals from
noise and the intervals where those signals are located

Utilizing recursion and dyadic intervals to improve computation time from n^2​ ​to
nlog(n)

### Web Scraper @ University of Arizona
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Tucson, Arizona
Enabling the team to use machine learning and natural language processing to
build a platform containing documents pertaining to environmental policy

Working in Lopez-Hoffman lab to write scripts that download PDF documents
relating to environmental policy from various websites

Ran scripts using the high performance computing cluster with multiple threads to
automatically download and store documents into box

### Section Leader @ University of Arizona
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Tucson, Arizona
Attended class lectures and administered exams

Facilitated lab hours once a week for two hours to enhance student
understanding of weekly assignments

Responded to student questions through online platform

### Research Assistant @ University of Arizona
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Tucson, Arizona
Worked with professor and PhD student in geolocation normalization using neural
networks

Wrote file conversions from text sentences to BIO-format and vice versa

Ran evaluation scripts

### Tutor @ TutorSync
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | United States
Contacted and negotiated prices with tutees' parents
Designed my own Algebra I curriculum for summer tutees
Understood each tutee's learning style


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Statistics and Data Science
University of Arizona


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sophia-lee-wang

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Last updated: 2026-03-29