"I’m the Engineering Manager of the Order Processing Team. I graduated from the University of Iowa with a doctorate in Computer Science, and worked in the engineering department of a few companies before joining Shopee. I’ve now been with Shopee for about 2 years. [...]

Any tips for aspiring engineers who are looking to join the tech industry?

As an engineer, being proficient in data structures and algorithms will give you an edge since we work with high-performance systems at Shopee. Being able to consider issues of scale and distributed systems will also come in handy since we are a big company where every issue is magnified tenfold."