Dora Do
design / engineering
I am an engineer, designer, and educator based in NYC. I create a wide variety of immersive, intentional [things] with technology.
doradocodes@gmail.com
Work Experience
2021 - Current
Senior Design Technologist|Block, Inc.
New York, NY
Design technologist for the Marketing Creative team to build interactive webpages for squareup.com.
- Worked closely with designers, production designers, and creative directors
- Used and maintained CMS tool, Contentful
- Built 50+ web campaigns and pages per year
- Built internal tools for non-technical roles to build interactive components
2020 - 2021
Senior Software Engineer|Block, Inc.
New York, NY
Worked with a team of developers to create and maintain the Square Web Payments SDK, developed in Typescript.
- Wrote unit and end-to-end tests
- Created documentation and sample projects for third party developers
- Managed on-call duties (ie. answering questions from internal developers, resolve errors in production, deploying and versioning apps
- Lead and built the UI widget, Square Payments UI, for easier implementation and maintenance of SDK and communicated progress to leadership
2018 - 2020
Senior Web Developer|Kodak Moments
San Francisco, CA
Lead Developer of KodakMoments.com, managing team of developers and oversaw all code submitted to codebase.
- Developed and maintained customer-facing website with NodeJS, React, Redux, SCSS
- Architected technical implementation for new features. Solved high-level site-wide problems using creative client side solutions
- Worked closely with Product Managers and UX Designers to design/implement new UX features using mockups and acceptance criteria
- Responsible for weekly releases and maintenance of testing environments
- Worked with Marketing team to create automated and dynamic promotional content and created tool to improve marketing efficiency
- Increased image uploading page to handle 107% more images per session. Integrate social media (Google, Facebook, Instagram, AppleID) sign in using respective libraries
2015 - 2018
Software Engineer|Macys.com
San Francisco, CA
Developed and maintained internal tools for Macys.com.
- Created, tested, and maintained UI for internal web applications using HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery
- Built applications with the latest web development technologies and frameworks, including BackboneJS
- Worked in an Agile environment and collaborated with other developers, QA engineers, product managers
- Created a dashboard for leadership to review product distribution
Education
2022 - 2023
M.A. Interactive Media Arts| New York University
New York, NY
2011 - 2015
B.S. Computer Science| San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
Grants & Residencies
2024
pr05 Grant| Processing Foundation
Prototyping a Collaborative Code Editor For Processing
New York, NY
2023 - 2024
Research Resident| New York University
New York, NY
Teaching
2024 - Current
MEDP 33100 Web Production 2| Hunter College
New York, NY
2023 - 2024
Teaching Assistant| New York University
New York, NY