# Elizabeth Culbertson

> Founding Engineer at ElectronX

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

Impact-driven, urbanist fullstack software engineer.

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ ElectronX
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
* Designed API to serve a new building energy surrogate model to internal Google clients
* Managed a cross-functional team responsible for the June 2024 buildings data refresh on Google’s 
Environmental Insights Explorer product
* Developed data pipelines and serving infrastructure for Google Earth sister teams under the Geo Sustainability umbrella
* Served on the privacy working group for Geo products, performing privacy reviews for Geo Sustainability launches

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Full stack software engineer on the Mesa team, formerly Mesa by Sidewalk Labs.

* Continued Mesa responsibilities after Sidewalk Labs became part of Google including leading an expanded frontend development team
* Architected & developed user management system
* Proposed, designed, and led implementation for a new sensor data pipeline, reducing latency for users’ historical data requests on the Mesa platform by over 90%

### Software Engineer @ Sidewalk Labs
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
* Fullstack software engineer for Mesa, a tool for reducing energy consumed by commercial real estate
* Led the frontend group responsible for building Mesa’s web platform, building out brand-new features such as a historical data interface and impact reporting

### Software Engineer, Cloud Team @ Butterfly Network, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
* Fullstack software engineer on the team building the web platform for Butterfly’s handheld ultrasound probe: identity and organization management, including our Enterprise product; HIPAA and GDPR-compliant image storage; analysis, collaboration, and education tools; internal admin portal for sales and support teams.
* Migrated Butterfly's payment system to a multi-tier pricing model, including integrating in-app purchases for the first time and releasing a free tier, increasing paid conversion rate by over 20%.
* Built a secure logging pipeline from our at-hospital Node.js client to Splunk via Amazon Web Services tools, unlocking the ability to support Enterprise clients in real time.

### Research Assistant, The Billinge Group @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, NY
• Led development of a Flask-based web app hosted on Google Cloud Platform to take group data processing methods online. The project I started is now the subject of a paper published in Acta Crystallographica Section A (see links below)
• Maintained the data acquisition and analysis pipelines for Brookhaven National Lab’s XPD beamline
• Designed optimization recipes to determine structural candidates for novel nanomaterials based on powder diffraction data
• Performed x-ray diffraction experiments at the XPD beamline at Brookhaven National Lab’s National Synchrotron Light Source II

### Research Assistant, The Pinczuk Group @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
• Visualized fractional quantum hall modes in GaAs heterostructures via Raman scattering data

### Academic Theme Associate, Residential Education @ Stanford University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Stanford, CA
• Served on team of 6 to manage residential arts immersion program in Kimball Hall
• Spearheaded the monthly University-wide variety show, Arts Jam, completely re-inventing the format and marketing strategy of the show from previous years
• Coordinated excursions to local Bay Area concerts and film screenings

### Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics @ Stanford University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Stanford, CA
Teaching Assistant for PHYSICS 45: Light and Heat. 
• Led weekly discussion sections and spent 2 hours a week on call in the Physics Tutoring Center
• Held weekly office hours and designed and held pre-exam review sessions
• Graded homework and exams
• As part of the pre-job training, in Spring 2015, completed a quarter-long physics pedagogy course

### Teaching Assistant @ Stanford Online High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Stanford, CA
• Held review sessions and one-on-one remediation sessions via an interactive video platform for students taking JP001: Inquiry-Based Physics
• Assisted the instructor in transitioning to a standards-based grading model

### Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering Department @ Virginia Tech
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Blacksburg, VA
Worked as a summer research assistant in the Huxtable lab:
• Measured nano-layer heat transfer properties using time-domain thermoreflectance
• Worked on a MATLAB-based transfer matrix approach to modeling the reflectivity-temperature dependence of the studied films.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Engineering Physics
Stanford University

### Master of Science - MS in Applied Physics
Columbia University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-culbertson
- Website: https://github.com/eaculb

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