# Anna Tchernych

> Senior Software Engineer at Apple, Special Projects Group

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/annatchernych

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems @ Apple
Jan 2017 – Present | Cupertino, CA
Designed and implemented features, metrics and evaluation pipelines to assess the performance and safety of autonomous systems
Developed components of Machine Learning pipelines (Kubeflow, Ray)
Built tooling (C++ code, python pipelines, React UI) to enable the evaluation of the reward function
Designed systems for data ingestion, validation and management to enable ML training
Developed full-stack microservices and APIs (React, python)
Implemented systems for Big Data processing for autonomous systems (Airflow, Spark)

### Founder @ Waddle
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Founder of a Startup in the Mobile Space.

### Software Engineer @ Recruiter.AI
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA
·	Built server side api with Python Django
·	Designed a module to identify the same person on a dataset of 7 mil records using information retrieval Sphinx Engine and Random Forest Classifier. Solved performance challenges by smart indexing, threading and parallelization
·	Built AWS infrastructure to execute machine learning models on AWS spot instances in parallel. Implemented machine learning models in python.
·	Worked on a search engine and data writer in C
·	Developed terminal in a browser using Node.js

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA
Built an inventory management system (Java, AngularJS)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Adap.tv
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Mateo, CA
·	Developed new features of a low latency/high throughput video ad delivery platform
·	Worked on an event-driven ad server and a noSql key-value distributed storage system.
·	Learned and used the Adap.tv open source project, RIBS, and its unique framework for memory management (C, C++)
·	Build real time bidding module servicing 1 bln requests per day

### C++ Software Engineer @ Chopper Trading
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
·	Coded various components of a high-frequency low latency trading system in C++ on Linux (gcc, boost, STL).
·	Developed Configuration Server to configure gateways on-the-fly using Apache QPID as the messaging system.
·	Contributed to development of BATS exchange order gateway 
·	Developed Drop Copy (Trade post feed) applications for different exchanges (ASCII, Fix and exchange-specific proprietary protocols). 
·	Developed a database transaction logger application using open source QT SDK. 
·	Developed an application to download files from a web service with gSOAP.
·	Developed scripts in Python for data conversion (4 weeks project)

### Quantitative Developer Internship @ Hydra Capital
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
·	Investigated new high-frequency trading strategies for FX and stocks.
·	Created a VBA excel application to back test trading strategies.
·	Researched volatility and prediction (ARMA)-based trading signals.
·	Coded strategies in Java on JForex platform.


## Education
### Masters in Financial Mathematics
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anna-tchernych-1000522

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Last updated: 2026-04-01