# Grace W.

> Senior Software Engineer at Skydio

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Skydio
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Founding Engineer @ Able AI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Led a team in creating a comprehensive email integration with Sendgrid and Outlook using Golang, Terraform, and GCP, bringing the process of inputting an email and associated attachments into the Able ecosystem from a few minutes to a few seconds
- Automated matching logic for emails and associated attachments, prioritizing security measures in order to ensure the integrity and privacy of client data
- Enhanced document tracking efficiency for all customers by implementing and iterating on checklisting features with GraphQL and Google Cloud Spanner, saving the customer hours of communication and follow-ups with their clients
- Established standards for on-call operational efficiency through creating runbooks, implementing lasting solutions, improving test coverage, updating or adding alerts if necessary
- Mentored a junior engineer who started with implementing bugfixes, and eventually was able to improve SQL queries and help push API functionality through deadlines

### Software Engineer II @ Digit
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Designed and wrote a new Golang microservice that abstracted data from Galileo, an external partner, which provided the basis for a company-wide initiative to allow greater access to users’ expenses flow
- Wrote REST API endpoints as well as integration and unit tests for each endpoint, to enable key features of the company’s new banking product, such as card activation, card freezing, listing accounts, listing transactions, account deactivation, etc
- Implemented NodeJS API endpoints to allow internal services to access users’ transaction and account data, removing the need for other teams to update their code whenever we integrated with another third party
- Furthered citizenship through a presentation on knowledge-sharing and through performing technical phone screens on new candidates

### Software Engineer II @ Uber
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Reduced API onboarding time from a week to a day by implementing a seamless integration with a config-driven service owned by another team, removing the need to duplicate code
- Decreased time and review cycles External API oncalls spent reviewing endpoint diffs from 2-3 review cycles approximately 15 minutes each, to 1 review cycle taking <5 minutes, through automating checks for conventions and removing the need to review code
- Improved runtime of queries on our long-term analytics through a rework of the systems, including the creation of new pipelines in HiveQL, a fact table, and the introduction of normalized fields
- Contributed to a large-scale effort across multiple teams with tight timelines to transition open APIs to private APIs without loss of data integrity by designing and developing necessary scripts, parallelizing work, and thoroughly testing the changes

### Software Development Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bellevue, WA
- Instrumented and analyzed the performance of an internal web service that retrieves log files from log servers.
- Developed algorithmic performance optimizations to the back end of the web service using C# and incorporated the updates into the service's codebase using Git. 
- Tested changes by analyzing current and previous instrumentation values to investigate changes in the service’s running speed.

### Emerging Technologies Consultant @ Groundworks Media Conversion Lab
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Ann Arbor, MI
- Troubleshot computers to resolve issues such as computer and application failure and hardware malfunction. 
- Connected and configured hardware devices on both Mac and Windows operating systems, and maintained computers by keeping software up to date and resolving user complaints in a timely manner.

### Explorer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Bellevue, Washington
- Built a responsive user interface for the mobile web platform of Bing Ads with a three-person team, using client-side languages such as backbone.js, require.js, less, and jade.
- Integrated a page into the Bing Ads codebase that prompts users to download the iOS mobile companion app when visiting the website from an iPhone.

### Engineering Intern @ Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Development Institute
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Shanghai, China
- Worked for the Electrical Instrument and Control department to help with function block programming as defined by the open standard IEC 61499.
- Designed and drew 188 function blocks that act as an interface for the functions used in the instrument and control system of the nuclear power plant currently being developed.
- Programmed an exponential filter for the instrument and control system using C++ and debugged with Matlab.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Computer Science
University of Michigan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/grace-w-754aaaa0

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Last updated: 2026-03-29