# Amanda C. > Building Lexi Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amandac1 Principal software engineer with experience in backend/infrastructure. Experience includes backend development, high-scale distributed systems, cloud compute/infrastructure, deploying and maintaining resilient production stacks/critical core production services, and growing and leading highly efficient software engineering teams. ## Work Experience ### Founding Software Engineer @ Lexi Jan 2026 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Principal Software Engineer @ Anduril Industries Jan 2020 – Jan 2026 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Lead of Software Integration Environment team (2023 - Present) - Technical lead/engineering manager of the simulation compute platform team (8 engineers). The Software Integration Environment is a development platform for simulation and integration testing, deployed both for internal Anduril developers and external Anduril customers. - The SIE team is responsible for the full software lifecycle of the SIE product - Operating in cloud (AWS/Azure) and in airgapped customer environments (customer cloud, on-premise), feature development, user experience, and stakeholder engagement/user onboarding. - The SIE autoscales to 250+ ephemeral test environments used for SiTL test and evaluation, external demos, internal or external Lattice developers (https://developer.anduril.com/guides/getting-started/sandboxes), hosting customized virtual machines and virtual networking. Platform Infrastructure - Lead of Storage systems team (2020-2022) - Design, development, and management of the data persistence platform backing all backend services - Capabilities include client libraries and APIs, storage microservices, and underlying open-source database technologies (FoundationDB). Software Intern Program Lead (2021, 2022) - Managed Anduril's software internship program in collaboration with University Recruiting. All full time return offers that were extended were accepted. ### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | London, England, United Kingdom Cassandra Team: - Built tools to take backups, report metrics, and automate maintenance workflows to maintain 150+ separate Cassandra clusters. Participated in on-call rotation to support cloud and on-premise clusters and provide Cassandra expertise internally - Developed and supported a new Java library that wraps long or error-prone Cassandra maintenance workflows. Then built a new micro-service that automatically detects Cassandra issues and triggers these workflows appropriately, based on metrics. Used Datastax Java driver Software Intern Program Manager (2019) - Performance tracking and technical/career mentorship of software engineering interns, working with intern mentors, hiring managers, and recruiting. ### Forward Deployed Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Finance Sector: - Developed data pipelines in coordination with client subject matter experts to detect trade pattern anomalies and alert compliance teams - Implemented features in Palantir’s alerting workflow service to adhere to data protection requirements ### Software Engineer Intern @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA Back end product development intern: Refactored dataset transaction metadata storage for Palantir’s data storage product, leading to improved stability and allowing for more complex usage. Used Java, Google Guava, and JUnit. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Twitter Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Anti-Spam Team: Created and implemented spam detection algorithms, notably reducing active user metrics by removing fraudulent activity. Used Hadoop, Scalding, Scala. ### CS61B Undergraduate Student Instructor @ UC Berkeley Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, CA Undergraduate Student Instructor for CS61B - Data Structures. Responsible for helping create curriculum/exams, creating course webpage, teaching lab/discussion/office hours, etc. ### CS61A Course Reader @ UC Berkeley Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA Reader for CS61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Responsible for reading and grading student projects, running review sessions, etc. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Twitter Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Web Development, Product Safety Client Team: Developed and deployed new settings page showing muted users (twitter.com/settings/muted). Used Scala, JavaScript, Mustache ### Summer Intern @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Lexington, MA Front end development: Developed functionality for aircraft network management interface. Used Perl, HTML, PHP. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### National University of Singapore ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amandaschow --- Source: https://flows.cv/amandac1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amandac1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31