# Grace O'Rourke

> Backend Engineer @ Spotify

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

## Work Experience
### Backend Engineer @ Spotify
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Frontend Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Increased the utility of SageMaker Autopilot (machine learning platform) by implementing a React component that generates a report outlining the importance of various features for experiment trials.
- Managed project details, presented various technical approaches, and delivered a technical design document of the desired feature to team and managers.
- Optimized API usage by adding GraphQL queries, resolvers, types, and schemas to the TypeScript codebase.

### Vice President Of Recruitment @ USC Sigma Eta Pi
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Deliberate potential new members inducted into SEP, a premier entrepreneurship society where members create startups that combine business, design, and engineering.
- Doubled active member count by restructuring recruitment and deliberation process.

### Co-Founder & Tech Lead @ Kümu
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Designed and built the prototype for a tutoring app that targets college students seeking affordable, class-specific help.
- Won the end-of-semester SEP pitch competition judged by a panel of investors and entrepreneurs.

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Host office hours to assist students with course material and logistics.
- Grade students’ projects and provide feedback to help them improve future iterations.

### Student Ambassador @ University of Southern California
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | University of Southern California
- First point of contact for hundreds of University associates at Presidential tailgates.
- Expedited phone inquiries and reservation statuses at front desk.

### Software Engineer Intern @ BlackRock
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Cut maintenance time of mobile apps by creating a user-friendly web portal that automatically
executes the complex, multi-step procedure of modifying internal app files.
- Added new functionality to the Sprint Boot server by programming API endpoints to access data layers.
- Facilitated front-end development by creating high-fidelity Figma mockups used for UX design iteration.
- Finalized the new web portal by implementing the front end using React and Material-UI.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Northwestern Mutual
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- Worked on an internal portal that tracks client policy changes initiated by financial representatives.
- Accelerated deployment to production by writing JUnit tests for program components.
- Tested and refactored over 6,000 lines of Java code using the Spring Boot framework.
- Improved workplace efficiency by authoring the team’s first onboarding document.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Brookfield Academy


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31