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.

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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 TechnologistBlock, 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 EngineerBlock, 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 DeveloperKodak 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 EngineerMacys.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 ArtsNew York University

New York, NY

Thesis: Merging Worlds: bridging analog and digital photography

2011—2015

B.S. Computer ScienceSan Jose State University

San Jose, CA

Grants & Residencies

2024

pr05 GrantProcessing Foundation

New York, NY

Receive grand for project, Prototyping a Collaborative Code Editor For Processing.

2023—2024

Research ResidentNew York University

New York, NY

Teaching & Community

2025—Current

Developer-in-ResidenceProcessing 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 2Hunter 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 MentorProcessing 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 JavaScriptSchool of Visual Arts

New York, NY

Taught a 3-series workshop on HTML, CSS, Javascript fundamentals to Design undergraduates at SVA.

2023—2024

Teaching AssistantNew 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.