# Tara Liang

> Software Engineer at Rokt

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/taraliang

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Rokt
Jan 2022 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ ASCAP
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Designed and built an authorization and request translation layer that integrates with AWS Secrets Manager to validate client requests, before translating HTTP POST requests to the company’s search data model
- Optimize and refactor an inherited critically failing ETL Python processing application by introducing optimizations such as batching a queued series of requests for anyone entity and introducing exhaustive unit testing to provide production-ready confidence
- Automated team's once manual deployment process, resulting in faster and more reliable releases using Terraform, Jenkins, Nexus, and Rundeck
- Fortified and enhanced a new service to work with a competing company to centralize the music industry data, while protecting the company’s data integrity.

### Software Engineer @ Essextec, A Converge Company
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York
- Developed an authentication and authorization system utilizing AWS Cognito residing in the public domain to provide tiered read/write access for publishers’ and composers’ regarding music proprietorship and financial information
- Collaborated with the principal engineer to integrate several separate teams with the newly developed authentication and authorization system
- Implemented unit tests to achieve 65% code coverage, ensuring code quality standards across code repositories.
- Utilized Jenkins and Rundeck services for CI/CD, along with SonarQube for the quality gate.

### Software Development Intern @ Dealogic
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York
- Developed a Web Scheduling application that would coordinate Pokémon gym battles between
trainers and gym leaders to introduce the company’s coding conventions.
- Upgraded .aspx to a single page application for dynamic loading using cshtml and Angular Js.
- Secured migrated web pages from cyber security threats by validating and encoding all inputs by
the users.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Stony Brook University

### Industrial Design
Brooklyn Technical High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13