About
Dora Do is an engineer, designer, educator, and artist, based in Brooklyn, NY. With over eleven years of industry experience, she has built large-scale tech solutions for major tech corporations. She co-founded src, a creative tech studio and community space in Brooklyn, and is a developer-in-residence at the Processing Foundation. She teaches at Hunter College and holds an M.A. in Interactive Media Arts from NYU.

Work Experience
2025—Current
Full-Stack Engineer & Product Partner (Freelance)—Seamless Studios
New York, NY
Owned end-to-end development and design iteration for Seamless Studios (an AI-powered mockup generator). Architected a Django backend and Svelte frontend deployed on Vercel and AWS, working directly with the founder to rapidly ship new features and UI enhancements.
2025—2026
Front-end Engineer & Technical Lead (Contract)—FuegoUX
New York, NY
Led a cross-functional team of 4 developers and worked alongside 3 designers to redesign and rebuild a mission-critical dashboard for SpaceNav AdvancedSSA, a satellite tracking and maneuver planning app. Managed technical strategy, architecture, and team coordination for high-stakes aerospace data visualization.
2021—2026
Senior Design Technologist—Block, Inc.
New York, NY
Design technologist for the Marketing Creative team, building interactive webpages for squareup.com. Partnered closely with designers, production designers, and creative directors to ship 50+ web campaigns and pages per year using Contentful. Built internal tools that let non-technical teams create interactive components independently.
2020—2021
Senior Software Engineer—Block, Inc.
New York, NY
Built and maintained the Square Web Payments SDK in TypeScript alongside a team of developers. Wrote unit and end-to-end tests, created documentation and sample projects for third-party developers, and managed on-call rotations. Led development of the Square Payments UI widget to simplify SDK implementation and maintenance, reporting progress directly to leadership.
2018—2020
Senior Web Developer—Kodak Moments
San Francisco, CA
Led development of KodakMoments.com, managing a team of developers and overseeing all code submitted to the codebase. Built and maintained the customer-facing site with Node.js, React, Redux, and SCSS, architecting technical solutions for site-wide problems and new features. Partnered with Product Managers and UX Designers to implement new features from mockups and acceptance criteria, owned weekly releases and testing environments, and built tools to improve marketing team efficiency. Increased image upload capacity by 107% and integrated social sign-in via Google, Facebook, Instagram, and Apple ID.
2015—2018
Software Engineer—Macys.com
San Francisco, CA
Developed and maintained internal tools for Macys.com. Built and tested UI for internal web applications using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery, including applications built with Backbone.js. Collaborated with developers, QA engineers, and product managers in an Agile environment, and built a dashboard for leadership to review product distribution.
Education
2022—2023
M.A. Interactive Media Arts—New York University
New York, NY
Thesis: Merging Worlds: bridging analog and digital photography
2011—2015
B.S. Computer Science—San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
Grants & Residencies
2024
pr05 Grant—Processing Foundation
New York, NY
Receive grand for project, Prototyping a Collaborative Code Editor For Processing.
2023—2024
Research Resident—New York University
New York, NY
Teaching & Community
2025—Current
Developer-in-Residence—Processing Foundation
New York, NY
Maintaining the p5js.org website and editor.p5js.org. Responsibilities include triage of open issues and pull requests of the p5 repos.
2024—Current
MEDP 33100 Web Production 2—Hunter College
New York, NY
A web design and development class, teaching undergraduates full-stack web development skills using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Node.js, MongoDB.
2025
GSOC Mentor—Processing Foundation
New York, NY
Mentored GSOC Contributer, Ego Nwaekpe, on her project p5.js Sketch Embed Tool, providing mentorship and guidance on React development, web design, and product design.
2024
Interactive Web: Intro to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—School of Visual Arts
New York, NY
Taught a 3-series workshop on HTML, CSS, Javascript fundamentals to Design undergraduates at SVA.
2023—2024
Teaching Assistant—New York University
New York, NY
Supported the Interactive Media Arts Low Res Program as the dedicated coding TA. Supported instructors in-class, students through office hours and ran thesis advising groups.