Alison Cohen

Teaching Assistant: Data Structures & Algorithms Analysis

University of Miami•  August 2019 - Present

• Hold weekly office hours to help students from various computer science classes with questions. • Grade weekly homework for 80 students in the Data Structures and Algorithms Analysis class. • Available as a resource to the professor and the students taking the class.

Software Engineering Intern

PicMonkey•  May 2019 - August 2019

• Developed features, fixed bugs and wrote automated tests in TypeScript, React, Redux, and Jest for the front-end of PicMonkey’s web application. • Responsible for various projects including creating a keyboard shortcut panel, tooltip information cards, a tristate checkbox component, and an experimental signed out home page. • Wrote 2,751 lines of code across 57 pull requests which were merged and deployed to production. • Reviewed and provided feedback on pull requests by other team members. • Participated in weekly triage meetings. • Regularly demoed new features at team stand up meetings. • Collaborated with cross functional team members on refining design. • Used JIRA for ticket management and GitHub for pull request management.