Simone Liu

Bachelor of Science
• Finished 4-year degree within 2.5 years
• Honors: Cum Laude; Dean’s List
• Membership: Upsilon Pi Epsilon – Computing & Information International Honor Society

• Developed, tested, and maintained scalable and stable platform on both front-end and back-end using
Vue, Typescript, Django, PostgreSQL.
• Led multiple epics from proof of concept to delivery and provided post launch support.
• Worked with Agile teams and participated on planning to understand customers’ value, acceptance
criteria, and requirements.
• Thoroughly involved in hiring process from recruiting to onboarding.
• Trained and mentored junior engineering team members on development, debugging, and delivering
quality product.

• Developed applications for teaching concepts in computer science, robotics, and programming for
STEM.
• Built a user-friendly web app called VEXcode VR (https://vr.vex.com), using React, JavaScript, and Agile
development methods (VEXcode VR is a virtual robot that has helped over 1 million students and users
in more than 160 countries).
• Built and enhanced the design of VEXcode GO in mobile and desktop using React, CSS, and HTML.
• Tested and maintained VEXcode IQ, V5, which is a single-source application that deploys to Windows,
Mac, iOS, iPad OS, Android, and Chrome OS.
• Helped develop a document system for each python command in Python mode in VEXcode VR.

• Developed new features in PHP and JavaScript and tracked users’ data, including steps, nutrition, and
heart rate.
• Utilized MongoDB for storage, set up a pipeline for retrieval, and manipulated data in PHP.
• Designed the UI of the app, using HTML, CSS, jQuery, and Bootstrap to represent the data in the most
efficient way.
• Leveraged design skills to create and enhance images for the app in Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Used Google API to pull health data from Android devices and smartwatches.
• Managed billing processes as well as in-app purchases and subscriptions in the Google Play console.