jennypng

hello, i'm jenny! ₊ ⊹

I am a software engineer @ Microsoft working on the Azure SDK team, an artist, and musician.

Previously, I've worked @ Amazon, GoodRx, researched LLMs + AR for accessibility @ Makeability Lab, & taught hardware/software interface @ Paul G. Allen School.

I currently enjoy full-stack engineering, game dev, new media. I will always enjoy dabbling in any form of creative self-expression.

jennypeng2020@gmail.com ✉️

projects

jam journal ₊˚♬

Apr 2025 - present

For people like me that love music and analyzing it!

Import songs and control playback via the YouTube API, take notes on specific songs, and add timestamped or lyric-specific annotations while listening in-app.

typescript, next.js, supabase, sql, youtube api

AR RC car racing 🏎️

Apr 2025 - Jun 2025

Multiplayer AR racing game allowing players in the same room to compete on custom, environment-aware, procedurally-generated racetracks.

Built for VR Capstone course in a team of 4, using Meta Quest.

c#, unity, photon fusion

AR Student Emotion Analyzer 😥

Mar 2025

Real-time system using emotion classification, live transcription, and AR to provide live instructor feedback during lecture when students are confused.

python, c#, tensorflow, unity, YOLO, whisper, pandas, gpt

saavy - personalized fashion assistant

Jan 2024 - Mar 2024

AI shopping assistant that learns your style and only suggests products in your style.

Built with a team of engineers and MBA students for CSE589: Software Entrepreneurship, and was unanimously voted as the top team by 16 VCs.

My contributions: UI and product design + pitched 3x to VCs.

figma, react

experience

Software Engineer @ Microsoft

Aug 2025 - present

Working on improving developer experience for creating + releasing Azure SDKs!

python, c#, mcp, azure devops

Undergraduate Research Assistant @ UW Makeability Lab

Oct 2024 - Aug 2025

Developed an LLM-powered AR pipeline using Unity, C#, gpt-4o, and prompt engineering to enable deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) users to author personalized, real-time sound-reactive AR interfaces.

c#, unity, gpt, prompt engineering

Junior Software Developer @ Amazon

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024

• Enhanced clarity of web pages used by 300+ associates across 5 book manufacturing sites.

• Reduced on-call load and average device downtime by implementing a UI popup that gives workers visibility into known technical issues.

• Migrated a printer configuration feature, enabling a print setting for a specific printer model.

• Disambiguated legacy Java code and complex SQL queries, enabling faster completion of a critical dashboard redesign.

typescript, react, java, graphql, dynamodb, aws, python, sql, golang

Software Engineer Intern @ GoodRx

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

• Accelerated incident investigation across all engineering teams by implementing ownership attribution across GraphQL domains, creating custom metrics, and increasing granularity of Datadog monitoring.

• Designed GraphQL schema, query resolvers, and API clients in Typescript, enabling frontend clients to fetch user location data to surface relevant search results.

typescript, graphql, datadog, jest

Teaching Assistant @ Paul G. Allen School

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

• Taught weekly classes to 30 students, refined course materials for 150+ students, and provided debugging guidance for labs about buffer overflow exploits, x86-64 assembly, cache policies, and dynamic memory allocation.

C, x86-64 assembly, linux, teaching

Student @ University of Washington

Sep 2021 - Jun 2025

B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 3.81