Amy Hua - Resume | Essential Element

Amy Hua·✉️ foramyhua@gmail.com·🏙️ San Francisco, CA

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Personal Projects

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Freelancer offering software development and advisory services.

Experience

Full Time (Acquired YourBase) - Amy Hua · Jan 2021 - Present · Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

Resource planned and helped scale a full stack team of 16 behind our one-stop shop financial services platform.
Identified stuck user flows and develop high quality UX's with industry best practices in mind.
Developed our trading UI for placing real time trades across cryptocurrencies and trade types.
Implemented Agile Software practices for delivering quickly and on complex project interdependencies.
Outcome: FalconX became the first CFTC registered SWAP dealer for cryptocurrencies in the USA and wins Most Innovative FinTech Solution by the 2022 Tech Ascension Awards
Outcome: Real time trades are executed with greater precision and speed for higher, per client profit margins.
Outcome: Broken user flows were consolidated into a powerful singular application, and team velocity increased with improved project organization.
Outcome: Implemented major platform capabilities including Staking, Consolidated Wallet Balances, and Stop Loss orders.

Full Time - Amy Hua · Oct 2019 - Jan 2022 · Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

Tech Lead executing all phases of UI/UX design and frontend development, from conducting user research to design and coding.
Built a real-time, Jenkins-like build logger and data visualizations for debugging build failures in ReactJS, D3.js, & Python.
Led the landing page UX and storytelling journey, including copy, and UX story for potential investors and customers.
Outcome: Customers can execute accelerated builds from their account dashboards in an easy-to-use UI.
Outcome: Reduced frictions in our user onboarding journey by simplifying and removing complex steps to convert new users into power users quickly.
Outcome: Expedited sales and user downloads by over 10x+ via conversion-optimizing landing page strategies.

Contract - Amy Hua · Jun 2019 - Oct 2019 · Lead Instructor & Course Designer

Developed the major course for the Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree, a 3-month program, for thousands of students.
Starred in video-led learning modules for students to learn database management and full stack app development with Flask and Postgresql.
Outcome: Enabled thousands of students from diverse backgrounds and ages to become professional software engineers.
Outcome: Featured in One Million Arab Coders Initiative, sponsored by the UAE Prime Minister, and Andela, a preeminent engineering firm in Africa.
Outcome: Became a top rated course for Udacity with a 4.5/5 overall program rating out of 746 reviews.

Full Time - Amy Hua · Aug 2018 - Jun 2019 · Senior Software Engineer

Mapping Team Frontend Engineer #2 who built our ground truth mapping stack for ensuring accurate up-to-date road data.
Led technical architecture decisions on mapping components for flexible, robust browser-based semantic mapping.
Rewrote our ThreeJS + React 3D traffic object placement app to eliminate leaky memory issues with point cloud data.
Outcome: Cruise decouples its ground truth success from an outdated academic GIS application into a custom-built app called Cartographer.
Outcome: Cartographer is one of the most well maintained codebases at Cruise and grew to 30+ contributors in 3 months.
Outcome: Cartographer becomes mission critical software for storing and transmitting semantic ground truth to and from Cruise's self driving fleet.

Full-Time - Amy Hua · Jan 2015 - Jan 2018 · Chief Architect & Interim COO

Led a team of product managers, designers, and engineeers to reinvent our ground truth collection efforts and UX forconsistent, comprehensive data collection across 2.5MM+ location records in 35 US metros.
Frontend Tech Lead who built our content management system and machine learning signals processing application in ReactJS and AngularJS.
Delivered and disseminated our Mission and Values for a mission-oriented company culture.
Aligned our company product understanding with cohesive product frameworks, terms, and concepts.
Outcome: Live XYZ became the most vertically and horizontally integrated location intelligence partner in New York City, working with 140+ city districts, operators, the Mayor's Office, MTA, NYPD, Department of Finance and Taxation, and more.
Outcome: Contributed to our company's competitive advantage, becoming the sole location intelligence partner for the City of New York.

Lead Bootcamp Instructor & Course Designer at NY Code & Design Academy, Full Stack Javascript Intensive, 2019
Software Engineer at Databricks, Product Execution Team, Sept 2014 — Nov 2014 (took leave)
Management Consulting Analyst at ATKearney, Procurement & Analytics, July 2012 - April 2013

Education

Undergraduate College - Amy Hua · June 2012 · Mathematics with Specialization in Economics, B.S. (Dual)

Affiliations: Gary Becker Institute on Price Theory (Labor Markets Research), UChicago Booth School (Conflicts of Interest Research), Math Research Experiences for Undergraduates (Geometry Exposition), Urban Innovation Analysis Inc (Urban Sociology Research), Alpha Phi Omega (Co-Ed Fraternity), UnCommon Fund Committee (Marketing Chair), Peer Health Exchange (High School Educator), Chicago Debate League (Judge)