# Emily Hales-Walker

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emilyhaleswalker

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Divvy | Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ Pluralsight
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | South Jordan, UT
• Expanded public GraphQL API, by handling complex permissioning logic, proxying other teams' internal APIs, and developing error handling architecture
• Built VSCode extension (with 12,887 installs), which provides users with real-time learning recommendations and analytics regarding how they spend their time in various projects and languages
• Improved code design on and expanded Tableau Web Data Connector, which provides enterprise customers easy access to millions of rows of data

### Software Development Intern @ Pluralsight
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | South Jordan, UT
• Built a GraphQL server in Node.js for a public API with another developer
• Wrote succinct documentation for this public API
• Actively participated in mob programming to improve site communications system

### Teaching Assistant @ BYU Computer Science Department
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Provo, Utah Area
• Taught students how to design and analyze algorithms using techniques such as dynamic programming, linear programming, greedy algorithms, divide-and-conquer algorithms, graph algorithms, and intelligent search algorithms.

### Research Assistant @ BYU Computer Science Department
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Provo, Utah
• Wrote Python code that distributes a program's work to over 15 machines, using parallel ssh and mapreduce
• Coded a classifier which assigns labels to documents using word and topic probabilities
• Presented paper about interactive topic modeling during a poster session of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
• Wrote code to generate cross-references for Jane Austen's published novels, contributing to a paper accepted by the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Brigham Young University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29