Frontend engineer with 5 years of experience building UI components, shipping web and mobile apps, and leading company all-hands.

Work

Lyft, Software Engineer II Jan 2021 – Apr 9
  • Led cross-functional projects in Lyft’s web app, enabling shared rides, notifications on web, and autofill sms code.
  • Transitioned to be the only full-time web eng on Design Systems to make UI components in React, TypeScript, and HTML/CSS, holding Lyft to WCAG 2.0 standard and saving engineering time across all of Lyft.
  • Mentored summer intern to pair program on technical concepts and assist in project management.
  • Lead monthly Frontend All-hands, breaking down knowledge silos and encourages company-wide adoption of latest tools.
Copysmithm Product Manager Intern Jan 2021 – Apr 9
  • First Product Manager in a 15-people start-up, acting as a glue between teams & introduced product release processes.
  • Led projects to revamp pricing structure and develop long-term roadmap through customer interviews and analytics.
  • Increased MRR by 30%, acquired 61% new customers, and supported the company through acquisition.
Lyft, Software Developer Intern June 2020 – July 2020
  • Built coupon, shortcuts, payment methods, and dark mode with React and TypeScript for Lyft on the web.
  • Added support for A/B testing and created guidelines to set up experiments and control roll-out.
  • Selected as one of the 4 out of 180 interns to speak to 250 students on the Intern AMA Webinar.
Yelp, Android Developer Intern Jan 2020 – Apr 2020
  • Took ownership of implementation and launch for app-wide feature in the Yelp for Business Owner app.
  • Using Kotlin, Koin, RxJava, built carousels with nested scrolling content to promote major business features.
  • Planned and implemented architecture migration from MVP to MVI for Android alert banner with JUnit tests.
Shopify, Android Developer Intern May 2019 – Aug 2019
  • Planned and implemented the WebView remote debugging feature on Shopify’s Android app.
  • Developed a notification system on Android with Java, Kotlin, and GraphQL to alert merchants of plugin issues.
  • Wrote advanced HTML to Android Spannable parser in Kotlin to render nested bulleted list data.
Hootsuite, Software Developer Intern Jan 2019 – Apr 2019
  • Added dynamic loading, category assignment, instant search to app store admin page with React, HTML/CSS.
  • Worked with cross-functional teams to launch Hootsuite app store and implemented API endpoints in Scala.
Royal Bank of Canada, Software Developer Intern May 2018 – Aug 2018
  • Increased efficiency of commodity tax data lookups by 2 months per year with C# and .NET automation.
  • Investigated, improved a 13-year-old system and served as single point of contact for business and QA teams.
Google, Google CodeU Mentorship program Feb 2018 – May 2018
  • Selected to participate in Google CodeU, an invite-only program to be mentored by a Google engineer.
  • Built a chat app in Java and introduced offline support by caching HTML pages and CSS with JavaScript.

Speaking

Daphne speaking on panel at Superposition

Projects

Founder and Co-president, UBC Women in CS Sept 2019 - Apr 2020
Co-Founder, UBC CS Coffee Chat Sept 2019 - Apr 2020
Team Lead and AR Developer, UBC Emerging Media Lab Jan 2018 – Apr 2019
Color Breakdown, Personal Project Oct 2018 – May 2020

Awards

Daphne meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Daphne on stage receiving TIA award

Blog

Random fun facts

Education

University of British Columbia Sep 2015 - May 2021

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science