# Aminata J. Sow

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aminata

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Loula (YC W23)
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Multiverse
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
- Built and released gameplay features for various TTRPGs in a web React app overlaid on a Three.js custom game engine - to which I contributed fragment shaders and a rehauled level editing system
- Owned and maintained company Discord bot used in public servers, updating its functionality, implementing a CD workflow with Docker and Google Cloud, and deploying quick changes as the Growth Engineer focused on our user community - led to 40k member Discord, 20k DAU, 85k MAU, 290k+ total accounts, and 400k+ game instances (aka “verses”)
- Worked with junior devs on various projects, took on code review responsibilities, ran technical interviews for incoming engineers and led onboarding
- Specced, architected and implemented a fully homebrew-friendly character creation flow for D&D 5th Ed. with accompanying custom CMS
- Developed 5 playable mobile game prototypes in 6 months, including: an auto-battler system, a bullet-hell ragdoll game, a GPT-enabled UGC platform, an infinite dungeon crawler, and finally the original prototype for Roomies - which became the studio’s focus project
- Led architecture conversations, implemented several UI/UX prototypes in Unity GUI, and built gameplay features across full stack - including Node.js server
- As lead tech artist and eng-point-of-contact for art team, developed particle systems, shaders, Spine integrations, and various custom animation approaches to create immersive cinematic experiences

### Software Engineer @ Alula
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Built V1 frontend of the entire NextJS web app alongside Director of Engineering
- Led speccing, user interviews, integrations, QA, and deployment of various features including: dynamic user onboarding wizard, quick-search, and cancer-gift registries
- Coordinated requirements across design, business, and engineering departments to quickly launch and iterate on product features
- Learned, set up, and oversaw DevOps systems, from CMS to CI/CD
- Managed full-stack changes across PostgreSQL with GraphQL querying, React frontend, and Python backend jobs

### Computer Science Teaching Fellow @ Juni Learning
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote
- Independently taught weekly individual hour-long computer science sessions to 20+ students
- Provided instruction in programming fundamentals, problem solving, graphics, algorithms, and website construction to students age 8-20
- Wrote and published 4 programming tutorials for young children using Scratch
- Trained and mentored other instructors

### Software Engineer @ SIRUM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020
- Collaborated with head of tech to develop version 2.0 of SIRUM’s principal web app and redesign organization’s process for storing donated medicine
- Revamped internal application for tracking and managing medicine donation at national level
- Led development, in-field testing and deployment of mobile web app for use in pharmacies
- Built and maintained a suite of Google Apps Script programs to manage internal and external operations in Good Pill Charitable Pharmacy,  automate patient communication through Twilio, and facilitate dispensing donated medicines to uninsured and underinsured patients
- Coordinated with pharmacy and tech team to design and implement two Salesforce apps
- Managed small team of volunteer developers from Stanford’s CS+Social Good student group

### Research Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Stanford
Assisted research through Prof. Giulio De Leo's lab at Stanford, investigating ways to tackle water-borne illness in the Senegal river by rebalancing the ecosystem, and better understanding people's perceptions of, and behaviors around, sources of water.
- Translated transcripts and interviews from French/Wolof to English
- Coded multiple transcripts alongside Ph.D candidate Andrea Lund

### Research Collaborator @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Stanford
Collaborated with Dan Reineman on an expansion of his dissertation work on quantifying wave quality (for purposes of coastal resource management).
- Used Python to create method for incorporating arbitrarily many variables into wave quality calculations
- Currently co-writing a publication on this method

### Breakthrough Teaching Fellow @ Breakthrough Collaborative
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Fe, New Mexico Area
Participated in summer teacher training and service program.     
- Independently taught different expository writing curricula to high school students 
- Provided college essay tutoring for college-going seniors from underserved schools
- Designed and taught an original Anthropology elective class

### Fellowship-Funded Intern @ FHI 360
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Intern in charge of FHI360's operations in Ziguinchor, Senegal.
- Led introduction of new epidemiological software at HIV/AIDS clinics
- Assisted physicians and other health staff with day-to-day operations

### Research Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
•	Worked in the Woods Institute for the Environment
•	Analyzed public health survey data using Excel, SPSS, and R software to facilitate Ph.D. research in public heath


## Education
### Bachelor's in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### International School of Dakar
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aminatajsow

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Last updated: 2026-03-23