# Carolyn Conway

> software, machine learning, startups

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/carolynconway

data science, engineering & startup investing

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Instrumentl
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Oakland, CA
Building the tools nonprofits use to discover, apply for, and manage grants

### Data Scientist & Admissions Manager @ Y Combinator
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
On the admissions team at YC, I did a bit of everything:
- startup investing (reviewing funding applications, interviewing founders, etc.)
- data science (building machine learning models, data analysis)
- software engineering (building founder-facing software, as well as the internal tools & products that power the admissions process)

### Senior Software Engineer - Pricing @ Lyft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer - Growth @ Lyft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
Co-inventor of Lyft’s marketing automation & optimization platform.

### Software Engineer @ YesGraph
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
YesGraph (YC W15) was a startup of 3 people, acquired by Lyft in 2017, which provided machine learning software as a service to companies looking to build out their referral programs. My work there included frontend & backend engineering, development of new features and APIs, and more.

### Linguistics Research Assistant @ Yale University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Yale University Linguistics Department


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics
Yale University

### Milton Academy


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31