Hi, I'm Helen

I am a senior at Vanderbilt double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. I will be joining Robinhood as a Backend Engineer after I graduate this May!

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Education

Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics

August 2017 - May 2021

  • Teaching Assistant and Grader for Intro to Programming in Python (Spring 2020) and Discrete Structures (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
  • Board member of the Philippine Intercultural Student Organization (PISO) and Vanderbilt Asian Pre-Professional Society (VAPS)

Work Experience

Robinhood
Robinhood
Backend Engineer
May 2021 -- Present

I will be joining Robinhood after graduation as a member of the Lending and Settlement team in the NYC office!

    Robinhood
    Robinhood
    Backend Engineer Intern
    January 2021 – May 2021

    Worked on the Clearing team as part of the effort to scale ACATS out to 3x

    • Helped implement a new lock and email flow for ACATS received, which greatly helped alleviate operational burden
    • Refactored ACAT acceptance check logic to increase automation for partial ACATs out, which helped increase overall automation to nearly 95%
    • Helped increase ACAT accepted percentage to 85%, which is much more in-line with industry standards
    Facebook
    Facebook
    Software Engineer Intern
    May 2020 – August 2020

    Interned on the Core Business: Delivery Economics team, which oversees 70% of total ad revenue for Facebook

    • Built a Python library that aids with data preparation and visualization using Pandas and Matplotlib
    • The library assists engineers in daily analysis of ad delivery experiments, significantly eliminating time spent preparing data for those experiments
    Principal Financial Group
    Principal Financial Group
    Software Engineer Intern
    May 2019 – August 2019

    Member of the CSS Enterprise Documents team, which is responsible for working with all internal documents at Principal

    • Developed a web app using Angular and Java Spring to automate the insertion of documents into the document item registry
    • Won 3rd place of 15 teams at Intern Hackathon. Wrote API for a calendar app hosted on GCP using Flask, JavaScript and Google Maps API

    Projects

    Some cool projects I've worked on!

    Poll Party (Technica 2020)

    Winner: Google -- Best Use of Google Cloud

    Web app that encourages voters from underrepresented groups to vote by connecting them with other groups of voters who feel unsafe going to the polls alone

    Janet (VandyHacks 2020)

    Winner: Vanguard – Best Financial Literacy Hack

    Web app with personalized financial literacy courses based on credit score ranges.

    Skills

    • python

    • Java

    • sql

    • reactjs

    • nodejs

    • JavaScript

    • docker

    Python

    Java

    SQL

    React / Node / JavaScript

    Docker

    Contact Me

    Send me a message!