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