Helen Pang

Hi!
I'm Helen.

I'm a Harvard senior, graduating with a BA in Statistics (Honors), a minor in Economics, and a citation in Korean language.

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Media &
Tech &
Data &
Leadership

I am passionate about uplifting Asian and Asian-American perspectives. I apply quantitative methods to tangible fields: technology, product management, and statistics. Breaking into entertainment.

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Who Am I?

About Me

I am currently working in tech, having interned at Google and Amazon in software engineering, and starting full time as an Associate Product Manager at Google in August 2023. I'm also incredibly passionate about Asian and female representation across all sectors, especially in media and entertainment. I’m always thinking of ways to leverage my technical skillset in the industry. So far, I’ve worked on international unscripted formats with SBS, one of South Korea’s largest broadcasting stations. I’ve also worked in film and TV development at Janet Yang Productions, a production company focused on amplifying AAPI voices.

Feel free to email me or reach me via LinkedIn.

Entertainment

Management

Leadership

Software

Work Experience

Tech Experience

Associate Product Manager Intern @ YouTube June 2022 - Aug 2022

Aligned Eng/UX/PM stakeholders to launch new ad formats on Shorts that are more immersive, performant, and engaging
Unlocked $300M ARR revenue for Shorts by pushing an innovative format through Eng/UX reviews, enabling new ad demand
Synthesized user research, advertiser goals, and YouTube Shorts Ads OKRs to lay out guiding principles and a 1-year roadmap

Software Developer Engineer Intern @ Amazon Aug 2021 - Nov 2022

Built and deployed corrections portal for advertising managers to edit current brand classifications by the Orpheus Brand API
Coded APIs to merge brand classifications with existing corrections and add data to the DynamoDB Corrections database

STEP Intern @ Google May 2021 - Aug. 2021

Coded complete support for the 2022 ECMAScript public class fields feature for Google’s JavaScript Compiler
Executed parsing/printing, support in the checks and optimizations, and transpilation of public class fields

Co-founder @ Zesti (Dating App Startup) Jan. 2021 – Jan. 2022

Spearhead product design, lead user experience studies, and raised $1000+ funding for Zesti, a dating app launching Fall 2021
Secured 4+ business partnerships with local restaurants where users can redeem discounts after matching on the app

Software Engineer Intern @ Infosys May 2020 - Aug. 2020

Build backend Java utility and API service to merge keys to JSON files based on text modifications
Modify FuzzyWuzzy algorithm implementations in Python and Java for chatbot entity extraction

Course Assistant for CS50 @ Harvard University Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

Lead instruction and review of Python, C, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and SQL concepts
Host weekly code reviews, office hours, and tutorials for one of Harvard’s largest classes (700+ students)

Work Experience

Media + Entertainment Experience

Film + TV Development Intern @ Janet Yang Productions Sept. 2021 - Dec. 2021

Provide in-depth coverage, notes, and creative feedback of incoming material of scripted and unscripted film and TV projects
Update internal lists, databases, and grids used by the creative team

Global Content Business Team Intern @ Seoul Broadcasting Station Feb. 2021 – June 2021

Devised pitching and marketing strategy for the selling of SBS’ Korean reality television show formats to the United States
Mapped out competitive landscape and generated contacts for SBS’ entry to the Korean pop concert industry in America

Conference Director @ Harvard Association for US-China Relations Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2020

Directed logistics for 1400 attendees of G20 Summit partner HSYLC, the largest student-run educational conference in China
Built student portals and wrote class-sorting algorithm for conferences under HAUSCRTech

My Work

Coding Languages & Frameworks

Java

React

Python

JavaScript

C

HTML/CSS

R

SQL

Stacks I have used

MERN Stack

JavaScript + MongoDB + Express + ReactJS + Node.js

Project: Church Finder

PRAN Stack

Postgres + React.js + Apollo (GraphQL) + Node.js

Project: Captionr

Get in Touch

Contact

hpang@college.harvard.edu

linkedin.com/in/helen-pang

Hi! I'm Helen.

I'm a Harvard senior, graduating with a BA in Statistics (Honors), a minor in Economics, and a citation in Korean language.

Media &Tech &Data & Leadership

I am passionate about uplifting Asian and Asian-American perspectives. I apply quantitative methods to tangible fields: technology, product management, and statistics. Breaking into entertainment.