Melissa Huang

SWE Pintern ๐Ÿ“Œ | CS, Business, & Digital Arts @ UT Austin

Houston, Texas, United States

About

โญ๏ธ A rising senior at UT Austin majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Business and Digital Arts & Media in hopes of leveraging this convergence for social good. ๐ŸŒ€ Interested in SWE, full-stack, AI/ML, and creative computation. ๐ŸŒฑ Spends her free time religiously rewatching Studio Ghibli films with her younger siblings and photographing stunning national parks.

Experience

  • Software Engineer Intern at Pinterest
    May 2026 - Present ยท 3 mos

  • Software Engineer at The SAFE Alliance
    Oct 2025 - May 2026 ยท 8 mos

  • Texas Product Engineering Organization (1 yr 9 mos)
    • Events Co-Director
      May 2025 - May 2026 ยท 1 yr 1 mo

      โ€ข Helped to ideate, organize, and spearhead events surrounding recruitment, corporate partnerships, cross-organization collaboration, and career development for our members.

    • Engineering Fellow
      Sep 2024 - May 2025 ยท 9 mos

      โ€ข Selected as 1 of 8 fellows (out of 180+ applicants) to participate in a comprehensive full-stack curriculum in preparation for later software projects with local Austin non-profits. โ€ข Practiced using full-stack frameworks and tools like React, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Firebase, Vercel, and Git. โ€ข Leveraged technical skills, mapped system design, and conducted user research to develop an app helping students find study spaces and coordinate study sessions. โ€ข Currently partnering with client The SAFE Alliance to improve merchandising and donation services on existing WordPress site.

    • JavaScript Co-Instructor
      Feb 2025 - Apr 2025 ยท 3 mos

      โ€ข Led weekly JavaScript lectures to 20 students, preparing lecture materials/demos to teach coding principles, OOP, event-driven programming, basic full-stack concepts, and ES6.

  • Project Team Member at Design for America - UT Austin
    Oct 2025 - Mar 2026 ยท 6 mos

  • R&D Software Engineer Intern at Verint
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 ยท 4 mos

    โ€ข Spearheaded development of an AI chatbot prototype involving the AWS Bedrock SDK, Typescript, Fastify, React, and NodeJS. โ€ข Delivered prototype features in bi-weekly sprints as part of cross-functional Agile methodology (daily stand-ups, retrospectives, etc.). โ€ข Conceptualized and pitched new ideas for AI and self-service tools in the healthcare/insurance industries to Verint's senior executives.