Sarah Liang Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Acquired 10+ sponsors from various companies with sponsorships varying from $2500 to $10k for 250+ person event.
• Communicate with hackathon sponsors/engineering department admin for funding and sponsorship packages.

• Utilized Expo Go, React Native, Javascript, and Firebase to develop frontend and backend of Sticker, a photo-sharing social app designed to help users reach their goals with friends.
• Created features including home screen, create, log, and edit challenge screen, and profile page.

Promoted intersection between creativity and technology through educational workshops and semester-long projects including mural painting for elementary schools and creative app development.

Costa Mesa, California, United States

• Worked on internal tool for data analysts to scale products, scores, & analysis to 5+ regional markets.
• Implemented React/Typescript-based UI redesign across 10+ features, leading to improved usability.
• Coded filter to generate keyword suggestions for autocomplete functionality using Lodash with substring-match algorithm for more efficient and user-friendly search functionality.
• Managed global state using React Context and Redux and hit endpoints with Redux querying.

Built to-do list, app login page, and tic-tac-toe React/React Native apps at USC’s premier CS club.

• Organized and co-authored blog post on environmental injustice in the Asian American community. Shared to 1500+ followers via Instagram.
• Spearheaded “PENdemic Pals” pen pal project, connecting over 200 USC students through weekly letter exchanges and a reveal event to help students build relationships during remote learning.
• Worked alongside executive board in acquiring sponsors, website development, large-scale event planning, marketing, and finance.

• Coordinated first-ever Advanced level of Scratch, catering to the unique learning styles of a group of five students ranging from Grade 1 to 6; created top-down scroller and animation projects for students to reference.
• Facilitated biweekly sessions teaching individualized curriculum of Scratch in various difficulty ranges to instill increased interest in coding for students from underrepresented backgrounds.

• Taught drawing using various mediums (pencil, ink, marker, colored pencil) to children in Grades 1-8 for 2.5 hours, once a week.
• Accommodated non-English speaking students with verbal translations of instruction.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: AthenaHacks, LavaLab, Scope, Creative Labs

Fine And Studio Arts

Education record

Activities and Societies: Art Club, California Scholarship Federation, Tennis, National Honor SocietyArt Club- President California.