Linna La
software engineer in san francisco, she/they
About
Frontend-focused engineer with experience working across teams, leading technical projects, and building processes, interested in social good.
Work Experience
Working with junior to senior level software engineers to strategize growth plans to build confidence and achieve development and career goals.
Tech: React, React Native, TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, Firebase, Google Cloud Platform
Resident expert on frontend, advised in GraphQL schema design, and performed evaluations for potential new technologies to use.
Independently shipped the web MVP of the Juked app, including planning, implementation, and new, reusable deployment infrastructure setup.
Developed and executed launch plans to bring the mobile app from beta to official iOS and Android app stores.
Tech: React, React Native, TypeScript, Python, Django, GraphQL
Led frontend software engineering team through architecture reviews and facilitating efforts to improve developer experience.
Established organization-wide processes for product development, testing, release strategies, and interviewing efforts.
Led engineering planning and execution for products across desktop and mobile devices.
Collaborated with infrastructure, design, and QA teams in initiatives to empower engineers to build safely and effectively.
Tech: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL, Go, REST, AWS, Ember
Architected, led frontend development, and facilitated meetings with stakeholders across teams for multiple products, including VOD content curation on creator pages, a web-based video editor, playlist playback and content management, and migrations of VOD pages from Ember to React.
Assisted in diagnosis and remediation of web frontend outages and VOD backend services, and improvements in monitoring.
Worked closely with design and engineering to implement a redesign of the Channel Page, Twitch’s highest trafficked page, featured in TwitchCon 2016.
Worked with QA to ensure releases tracked business-critical metrics and were compatible with the web app, embeds, and public API specifications.
Tech: Python, Flask, React, JavaScript
Led prototyping and assisted in planning, implementation, and iterations of new internal tools.
Worked on a full-stack team to build new internal operation tools for our account managers.
Prototyped proof-of-concept integrations to inform build vs. buy conversations.
Speaking
While most people associate software engineering with writing code, figuring out what to build and how to do it is half the battle. Tech specs are an invaluable tool for clarifying ambiguity and keeping teams focused on a common goal. This talk will go through what makes a tech spec useful, the general anatomy of a tech spec, and how to tailor one to fit your team’s unique needs. This talk is for software engineers new to leading projects, as well as experienced engineers looking to introduce or rethink their technical planning process.
Volunteering
Organized and led mentorship events on campus for 39 children adopted from China, facilitated weekly mentorship committee meetings, and assisted in planning, publicity, and logistics for fundraising, outreach, and social events to enrich the lives of Chinese adoptees in Southern California and orphans in China.
Education
Fall 2012 UC Education Abroad Program
International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan