Christine Tsou
About Me
I am currently a Software Engineer at Niantic on the Core Infrastructure team in Bellevue, Washington. I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science degree from the Engineering School at the University of Virginia in December 2017.
My experiences are primarily around being a full stack engineer, where I have owned customer facing features in mobile and web application services from end-to-end. However, I am always looking for new opportunities to broaden my engineering skill-set (which has led me to my current job as a server engineer).
I love coding, ultimate frisbee, music, and trying out different sports. The Seattle Cascades are my favorite professional ultimate team and I recently discovered surfing in Westport, Washington. I've always loved listening to music my entire life - hence my long lost dream to produce music or be in a band. I'll play guitar, learn music theory, or dabble in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) in my free time. Other artists I include Young the Giant, Phum Viphurit, Oh Wonder, and HONNE.
Work Experience
Niantic
Software Engineer II | August 2020 - Now
I currently work on the Core Infrastructure team, which lays the foundational tools and frameworks that all games and servicing teams at Niantic rely on. Responsibilities of my team range from supporting infrastructure amongst different teams at the company, to helping ship anticheat tools and core client libraries to the game teams.
Qualtrics
Software Engineer II | November 2019 - Now
Software Engineer I | March 2018 - November 2019
I previously worked on the Digital Experience team, which powers the Qualtrics Website and App Feedback customer experience platform. It is a content distribution and targeting platform that enables our customers to engage users and collect feedback through digital mediums throughout their digital journey (i.e. website and mobile platforms).
Microsoft Corporation
Software Engineer Intern | May - August 2017
As an intern on the SQL Server team, I worked on improving the processing and performance of dumping SQL Server debugging output into a Dump Data Warehouse used to investigate issues across multiple crash dumps. This allowed for more efficient debugging and opened up the possibility of applying machine learning algorithms to better predict and prevent SQL Server crashes.
Miracle Messages
Android Mobile Application Developer | September 2016 - August 2017
Designed and built an Android mobile application to streamline and simplify the process for Miracle Messages volunteers recording messages of homeless individuals to their long lost loved ones.
Microsoft Corporation
Explore Intern | May - August 2016
Designed and implemented a customer engagement tool to facilitate the process of collecting and managing customer feedback through a Django web application.
The MITRE Corporation
Software Engineer Intern | June - August 2015
Developed Quick runwaySimulator for runwaySimulator to expedite airport capacity analysis at hundreds of airports and explored current speech-to-text open source libraries for transcribing Live Air Traffic Control audio files.
Yadon
A Discord Bot for Indecisive League of Legends Teams
Provides on-demand player role assignments based on team needs and player preferences
Customize your game roles so that Yadon knows your role preferences before game time
Yadon is currently only used in a private Discord server with a groups of friends and I. If you're interested in adding Yadon to a Discord server, feel free to reach out to me and I'd be happy to extend support to multiple Discord servers!
BigTuna
A proof of concept built using InvisionApp for an iOS Mobile Application
Provides a friendly user experience by organizing content in a way that focuses on what users actually want to know
For a more holistic view, we collect restaurant data through in-app user reviews and existing trusted sources like Yelp and Google
Using geolocation, user preferences, and social networking, the mobile app helps users find and discover places to eat
If you're interested in learning more, reach out to me and I can share the full set of mocks with you!
