# Antonia E.

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Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/antonia

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Science
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Alameda, California, United States
- Architected and led development of "Nexus", a distributed neuroscience platform with C++ server, Electron/React client, and Python SDK, enabling daily use by researchers for neural device experiments and behavioral trials.
--- Signal-chain' based visual programming GUI for configuring and running neural devices (React, React Flow, ChakraUI)
--- Plot interface, for both live streaming data and interactive browsing of historical data (PlotlyJS, ThreeJS)
--- Python SDK and script runner for running behavioral experiment trials, shipped with out-of-the box 
games and hardware support
--- gRPC and ZeroMQ API for ingesting, retrieving experimental data (RPC and PUB/SUB)
--- Video inference pipeline for 2D pose estimation from camera feeds (OpenCV, ONNX Runtime)
--- CI/CD pipelines for automated building, testing, packaging, codesigning & release cutting

- Developed cross-language "Synapse" neural device API with gRPC, Protobuf, and ZeroMQ for high-bandwidth data streaming, published to major package managers (PyPi, npm, vcpkg)

- Established & contributed to full-stack infrastructure including internal web applications for manufacturing workflows (MES), lab operations (LIMS) and internal company processes; Typescript/React frontend, Rails / Postgres backend, HTTP REST APIs. Established shared component libraries (React, Storybook) & Rails engines, CI/CD pipelines for automated testin, deployment, release cutting (GitHub Actions, Docker), authentication flows with shared sessions (OAuth2 / Auth0), search (Elasticsearch)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Bright Machines
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Contributed Brightware Studio Cloud SPA and microservices for microfactory hardware simulation & configuration (React, Material UI, Node.js, Java Spring, and AWS)

- Architected dynamic UI system for hot-swappable device driver interfaces

- Maintained shared infrastructure such as component libraries (React, Storybook) and CI/CD pipelines ( GitLab, AWS)

### Software Engineer @ Bright Machines
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Developer @ Modbot
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco
Developed Composer web application featuring visual programming interface and real-time 3D digital twin environment for robotic hardware control using React, Redux, Three.js, and HTTP / WebSockets APIs

Created custom automation software in C++ and Python for manufacturing clients, including pick-and-place and deburring systems integrated with PLCs and I/O modules (C++ & python; HTTP rest APIs)

Contributed to C++ controller software (for state management, motion control, web services, Qt pendant GUI driving hardware)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Modbot
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA

### Robotics Engineering Intern @ 5D Robotics, Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA
Ultra-wideband localization for autonomous mobile robotic platforms with ROS, C++, Ceres.

### Robotic Systems Integration Course Assistant @ Olin College of Engineering
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Needham, MA
Teaching / course assistant for the Robotic Systems Integration course at Olin College.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Barrett Technology, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Newton, MA
Motor controller diagnostic & tuning applications, end-user desktop application GUI.
Python and wxPython.

### Machine Shop Assistant @ Olin College of Engineering
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Needham, MA
Fabricated parts from work orders; use of CNC mills and lathes, horizontal and vertical band saws, belt sanders, drill presses, and laser cutters.

### Research Assistant - Hane Lab @ Tohoku University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Circuit design for MEMS scanning mirror.

LabVIEW

### Product Innovation / Engineering Intern @ Cylo LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Portland, Oregon Area
Smart bicycle brakelights - software, electronics, enclosure design.

### Research Assistant @ Olin College of Engineering
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Needham, MA
Research assistant, maintaining cultures of photosynthetic, anaerobic bacteria, controlling media, aeration & wavelength; UV/visible spectrophotometers, HPLC


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with Concentration in Robotics
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017

### Oregon Episcopal School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/antoniaelsen
- GitHub: https://github.com/antoniaelsen

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Last updated: 2026-03-20