# Daphne Bliss-Rosval > MGIS Candidate @ Penn State | Software Engineer, Map Enthusiast | Ex-Google, Ex-Amazon Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/daphneblissrosval I'm passionate about all things GIS, the outdoors, and motorcycles. In particular I care about how we can reveal and address inequalities using spatial data, how the design and planning of our cities influences our politics and health, how we can use technology to prevent, prepare, and respond to natural disasters, and how to identify which country I'm in in Geoguessr based on bollards (and other useless niche knowledge). I'd love to hear about how you're using maps to influence how we think about our environment & make a positive impact on the world :) ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States Google Maps Basemaps team ### Site Reliability Engineer @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Bruno, California, United States YouTube Search SRE team * Focusing on system reliability, scaling, monitoring, and rollouts * Primary on-call for all Search and Machine Learning infrastructure in YouTube * Work closely with multiple dev teams to ensure the safety and success of new experiments and launches ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Madrid Area, Spain in Amazon Business • Designed and implemented a system for businesses to buy in bulk • Led the coordination between 3 teams and QA to successfully deliver new product • Led OE initiatives and worked with management to establish & meet our SLAs and KPIs • Received several leadership awards • Owned the logic to determine which prices to display in various locations on the Amazon Business retail website & consolidate price calculation across multiple heterogeneous systems • Created a killswitch with 10 minute response time to disable any malfunctioning customer segmentation behind the machine learning algorithm running on the main retail website pages • Led the system preparation and team coordination for Peak Traffic periods (Prime Day, Q4) for a Tier 1 service ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Vancouver, Canada Area in Kindle/Digital Content On the Digital Accounting & Royalty Technologies (DART) team, assisting with calculating, handling financial approvals, and disbursing royalty payments in a highly distributed system used by internal Amazon customers such as Kindle e-books, Amazon Video, Amazon Music, Twitch, etc. In this role, I helped reach our SLA of 99.999% unstuck payments, fully automated our deployment process to eliminate 6 hours of oncall workload per week, and encrypted our external calls to ensure data security, amongst other projects. ### Teaching Assistant @ The University of British Columbia Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Vancouver, Canada Area CPSC 100 ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver, Canada Area Developed an encryption module to store highly confidential data in our team's DynamoDB & added features to display event information on our internal website (jsp). Received a full-time return offer upon end of internship to return in August 2018. ### Lead Teaching Assistant @ The University of British Columbia Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver, Canada Area APSC 160 - Introduction to Computation in Engineering Design • Laboratory teaching assistant for Introduction to Computation in Engineering Design (APSC 160) • Responsible for managing up to 38 other teaching assistants and over 700 students, as well as some course organisation • Held office hours to assist students with questions and review exams • Handled all exam regrade requests and provided data analysis on common errors made by TAs in grading to help optimise grading process and ensure fewer regrades needed in future • Worked closely with course Professors to ensure smooth content delivery and coordination between TAs and faculty • Taught and marked labs on analysis and simulation, laboratory data acquisition and processing, measurement interfaces, engineering tools, and computer systems organization in C ### Painter @ College Pro Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ### Barista @ Booster Juice Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ### Cook @ Browns Socialhouse Semiahmoo Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Surrey, British Columbia, Canada ### Painter @ Student Works West Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Calgary, Alberta, Canada ### Cashier @ Safeway Canada Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Calgary, Alberta, Canada ### Inventory Assistant @ Bedrock Gems Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Calgary, Alberta, Canada ## Education ### Master's Degree in GIS Penn State World Campus Jan 2026 – Jan 2027 ### Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems Penn State World Campus Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science The University of British Columbia Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/blissroz --- Source: https://flows.cv/daphneblissrosval JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/daphneblissrosval/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22