# Allison C.

> Software Engineer and Data Wrangler

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/allisonc

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the e-learning industry. Skilled in Computer Science, Bash, OpenGL, Computer Graphics, and Continuous Integration. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Bioinformatics from University of California, Santa Cruz.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ ngrok
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ VSCO®
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Senior Software Engineer @ Patreon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Specializing in building tools for financial fraud detection and prevention.
- Built from the ground up a ML model deployment framework. Data collection and storage, model serialization, and real-time and asynchronous versions of the platform.
- Implemented the GDPR compliance data export and deletion deletion tooling

### Software Engineer @ Udemy
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
Software Engineer: Jan 2015 - September 2016
Data Scientist: September 2016 - May 2017
Data Engineer: May 2017 - Feb 2018

### Software Engineer @ Manifest
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
- Created statistical models for estimating latent conversions and facebook black box
- Created deployment & configuration process for dev virtualboxes and production AWS EC2 machines using Saltstack
- Led logging initiatives, creating custom logging handlers integrating with loggly and dynamodb
- Integrated Circle CI testing with existing codebase
- Created log monitoring email alert system
- Designed and implemented an automatic image cropper
- Worked with the facebook custom audiences API

### Bioinformatics Lab Programmer and Sysadmin @ University of California Santa Cruz
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Worked as a lab programmer for Ed Green and Beth Shapiro's ancient DNA lab.
- Set up workstations and compute cluster (OS install, configuring LDAP user authentication, and creation & management of a Gridengine cluster)
- Administered user access, troubleshooting, and install of programs on the shared computing resources
- Wrote python programs for processing genome and sequence data
- Designed and created a user interface to the Mia genome assembly program.

### Tutor and grader @ University of California Santa Cruz Computer Graphics
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Lab tutor and grader for the year long upper division 3D graphics course. Course was in C++ with a section on shaders in GLSL.
- Tutored students during lab hours, assisted in debugging programs and explaining graphics concepts
- Helped students with dev environment setup
- Graded (compiled and ran) students' programs as well as the more traditional exams


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz

### Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics
University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/allison-c-06609251

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Last updated: 2026-04-01