# Elysia Smyers

> SWE @ PostEra

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/elysia

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ PostEra
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### CS238 / AA228 Course Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States
Assisted Professor Mykel Kochenderfer with his course of 440 students that covers algorithms for building real-world decision-support systems; held twice-weekly office hours and contributed 10-15 hours per week to grading

### Software Engineer Intern @ PostEra
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Worked on Proton, an end-to-end machine learning platform to close the Design-Make-Test cycle of Medicinal Chemistry
- Built a Django model (Python) and exposed endpoints (Python, Typescript) for chemists to save and view synthesis route objects
- Developed frontend interfaces for features in React and Typescript

### CS278 Course Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States
Assisted Professor Michael Bernstein with teaching, grading, and orchestrating quarter-long project work for 170 computer science students

### Student Researcher @ Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States

### Privacy Infra TPM Intern @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- TPM Intern on the Applied Privacy Technology Team within Meta’s Privacy Infra, which supports the privacy and security of 3.8+ billion users across all of Meta’s platforms
- Developed H1 2023 roadmap for a cryptography-based privacy-enhancing technology by aligning internal and external stakeholders and working directly with engineers to support Meta’s data use minimization objectives

### Head of Operations @ The Marriage Pact
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Stanford, California, United States
- Manage day-to-day operations, onboarding, scheduling for a rapidly-growing team of >50 employees
- Contributed to 1,000% growth in my first year on the team (10,000 → 115,000 students)
- Design and develop internal applications using APIs and cloud functions to automate processes and alleviate bottlenecks

### DOS Product Management Intern @ Health Catalyst
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Worked directly with the Data Operating System’s (DOS) SVP of Product Development
- Conducted interviews with DOS PMs to assess the current use of product management metrics across 20 engineering teams and developed and presented a metric framework based on findings

### Assistant Rowing Coach @ LOS GATOS ROWING CLUB INC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Los Gatos, California, United States

### REU Intern @ Appel Lab @ Stanford University School of Engineering
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Worked with mentor Abby Grosskopf under Professor Eric Appel
- Developed MATLAB programs (self-taught) for the automated analysis of gel extensibility experiment footage, drastically reducing the manual work required of researchers
- Analyzed data for 200 gel formulations to assist with innovative research on injectable biocompatible gels for cancer applications

### Summer Administrative Intern @ LOS GATOS ROWING CLUB INC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Los Gatos, California, United States
- Wrote weekly newsletters for about 200 athletes and their families across 5 programs
     - Assisted in managing registration for the club's summer rowing programs
     - Assisted in organizing the club's 40th Anniversary Celebration for 200 guests by initiating and maintaining communication with caterers and other contractors

### Social Media Marketing Strategist @ Distribution Axessorize
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Montreal, Canada Area
- Scheduled regular media posts in order to boost visibility for Axessorize's line of compostable phone cases, "Mellow" 
- Initiated contact with models and coordinated with photographers to schedule photo shoots 
- Primarily focused on Instagram and Facebook

### Cofounder, CFO, Scheduler, Tutor @ Gatos Grade Boosters
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Los Gatos, CA
- Raised $3400 for the “I Have a Dream” Foundation by coordinating the schedules of 5 different tutors and more than 50 clients
- Collected and managed all revenue
- Supported local students by tutoring in math, sciences, and French

### Soccer Referee @ U.S. Soccer Federation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Los Gatos, California, United States

### Sales Associate, Inventory Manager @ ACE Hardware
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Los Gatos, California, United States


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Symbolic Systems, concentrating in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

### High School Diploma
Los Gatos High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elysiasmyers

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Last updated: 2026-03-22