# Zerlina L. > Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc. Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zerlina Tech lead who has lead and executed complex technical projects successfully. Experienced in working with product and cross functional partners to identify and solve business problems. Designed and shipped scalable and maintainable software for both small startups and larger companies. Strong backend engineer with full stack web experience and some media experience. Excellent communicator with a strong drive to succeed. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer - Ranking @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2023 – Present I work to solve personalization, discovery and recommendation problems with the goal of serving the most engaging, diversified and personalized feeds to each user. I began my work in Ranking on an ML product team, building consumer products powered by our ML models. Now, I work on the ML Ranking Platform team, building the platform that hosts our ranking pipelines. ### Senior Software Engineer - Media Foundation @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 The small but mighty Media Foundation team is in charge of everything to do with Media at Reddit. This team is in charge of creating, optimizing, serving, caching, storing every type of media. During my time on this team, I lead initiatives in these areas: Reddit's Media Platform and Infrastructure, Media Content Contribution, and Media Performance. Tech: Docker, Kubernetes, Go, FFMPEG, AWS, Fastly, AWS S3, SQS, Video encoding, transcoding, HLS, DASH, graphQL, Python ### Software Engineer - Media Foundation @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Software Engineer - Video @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Worked on Reddit's Live Streaming Product RPAN, and created Video Stitching as an MVP. ### Engineering Technical Lead @ MANTL Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Tech Lead for Backend Platform Engineering. I led the architectural design and development of an upgraded version of an online banking application SAAS. This large and complex project, done in a new event driven microservices architecture that enabled omnichannel account opening, was successfully executed and enabled the business to acquire critical new customers. Most Senior IC on the team mentoring multiple mid-junior devs. Worked with Product and leadership to write effective OKRs. Managed stakeholder expectations and cross team communication. As a key interviewer, created the company's first Engineering career ladder. This was crucial in leveling new hires and helping managers coach ICs on career development. ### Senior Software Engineer @ MANTL Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Wonder (AskWonder.com) Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 Full Stack Product Engineer. Worked on many parts of the stack. Created user facing features such as a new interactive onboarding flow, designed reusable React UI components, optimized backend performance and SQL queries, lead large data migrations (Mongo to Postgres), maintained data pipeline and improved ETL performance, migrated repo from JS to TS, set up fully automated e2e testing, etc. ### Senior Software Engineer @ IAC Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 IAC is a media and Internet company comprised of some of the world's most recognized brands and products, such as HomeAdvisor, Vimeo, About.com, Dictionary.com, The Daily Beast, Investopedia, and Match Group's online dating portfolio, which includes Match, OkCupid and Tinder. Full Stack Platform Engineer in Applications ### Software Engineer @ IAC Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Oregon State University ### Kenyon College ### High School Diploma - International Baccalaureate Pearson College UWC ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zerlinaleung --- Source: https://flows.cv/zerlina JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zerlina/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22