# Janet V.

> Software Engineer

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

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## Work Experience
### Software Engineer (xWF through ERG/Yoh Inc.) @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
- Directed integration efforts for major AI model hosts such as Gemini and Vertex Foundation models through writing RPC services/protos/complex material components/bug tickets, and kicking off builds for SDLC AI Agents
- Optimized AI Safety report workflows through self-initiated features, including host agnostic REST model response extraction and field autocomplete
- Conducted several app compliance agentic crawls and wrote backend services for classifying LLM responses
- Influenced successful core functionalities such as app context extraction and improved error handling through actionable feedback
- Organized bug bashes, triaged issues, delivered bug fixes, flagged early issues, reduced technical debt, and authored comprehensive unit and a11y tests
- Launched an improved code compliance landing page (Inbox Mini) with complex Angular routing and advanced sorting

### Software Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Engineered end-to-end test infrastructure and environment checks for mission critical tests for our biggest customers (i.e. Ultra 64-CKU tests) and nightlies used for releases in Python in Jenkins
- Developed from inception metrics collection (Prometheus), data pipelines (BigQuery), and dashboard creation (Metabase/Tableau) used by multiple teams to track performance of our product over time in many configurations. Served as the point of contact, owning the data and transforming use for other platforms and cases such as dynamic baseline tracking
- Tested product performance at different high configurations (API keys, user accounts, service accounts, environments, etc) to test unexplored limits there, exposing bugs and providing insight into product limitations
- Mentored engineers in best software engineering practices in the command line and Confluent specific tips, also documenting common issues / bugs and how to deal with them
- Supported operations and technical debt through other important upkeep such as creating infrastructure to support M1 Macbook compatibility and migrating from JFrog to ECR for artifacts 
- Won the company-wide Ship it award for drastically reducing Semaphore CI times by improving slow checks and parallelizing others, also participating in other Hackathons

### Software Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Added infrastructure to the internal framework used for running benchmarks on Confluent’s flagship products in the cloud, allowing tests to run for the on-prem product (Confluent Platform) instead of only the cloud product (Confluent Cloud)
- Improved ease of comparing performance differences between the on-prem/cloud products, since test can be easily run for both products and used the same configurations and hardware
- Enabled utilization of cloud advantages (rather than locally) such as use of a standard environment, faster computing, automation, less strain on personal hardware, etc
- Exported metrics for Prometheus monitoring, also allowing side-by-side comparisons between the baseline and current benchmark results for on-perm releases in files exported to AWS S3 and within Jenkins
- Worked on improving a separate tool used to start the Confluent on-prem releases within the cloud, such as more robust Terraform version checking and ensuring public DNS addresses were generated for custom security groups/subnets
- Received and accepted a full-time SWE return offer

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
- Contributed to Tracez for the OpenTelemetry (open-source tracing and metrics standard, also known as OTel) C++ repository, which are in-process webpages that are useful for debugging, give unique span sampling advantages, and require no external tracing system/database overhead
- Designed and wrote a thread-safe distributed backend component used to collect/propagate span data by interfacing with the OTel API
- Planned and implemented the API and frontend component to emits aggregations in JSON and serve files
- Innovated how zPages/Tracez display aggregations by minimizing rendering through separating the data and UI
- Contributed to the OTel blog by writing about zPages, creating diagrams, and organizing other interns to detail findings between all the zPages projects. Also spearheaded preliminary details for the zPages experimental specification
- Created unit and benchmark using GTest fixtures, CPU timers, and friend classes
- Received a full-time SWE return offer

### Software Developer @ University of Michigan
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Fullstack development at University of Michigan's Center for Academic Innovation working on Atlas, which provides course analytics and insights to promote transparency, accountability in class quality, and informed student decisions and is used by ~40,000 unique users in 50+ countries
- Refactored hundreds of lines of Django templating code into Vue, including updating grade distribution and student standing plots to Plotly graphs better utilizing whitespace, for production use
- Debugged long-standing issues with missing and inaccurately sorted data for edge cases

### Research Assistant @ University of Michigan
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Fullstack development for the Solar Wind Analyzer's Heavy Ion Sensor (SWA-HIS) tool's operations
- Created several data visualizations in Plotly Javascript, such as line charts and heat maps for the Angular frontend
- Configured Express/NodeJS API endpoints and data filtering to access the MongoDB for the backend
- Helped brainstorm application architecture and data flow

### Software Developer @ The Aerospace Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Engineered attractive GUI used in CubeSat operations to view vehicle state/sensor data, send out satellite commands, and schedule tasks, adding features like filtering and modal views
- Optimized interface and log update speeds by over 100% through reimplementing Redux architecture and streamlining data sent by TCP/UDP packets and REST calls
- Deployed a Flask application for ensuring software versioning consistency to a remote Alpine Linux server
- Updated logging and documentation for the React-Redux-MaterialUI frontend and Django Python backend (fullstack web development, Flux state management, styled components)
- Became familiarized with versioning, sprints, ticketing, code reviews, and documentation within the Atlassian Suite (Bitbucket/Jira/Confluence)
- Received the highest intern performance rating and a return internship offer

### Research Assistant @ University of Michigan
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Developed web interface using React and Bootstrap to better understand student privacy through how universities implement their The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) policies
- Visualizing dynamic statistical data using Plotly.js
- Analyzed and codified legal opt-out statements
- Worked under the supervision of Dr. Florian Schaub at the School of Information’s Security Privacy Interactions Lab


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
University of Michigan

### High School Diploma
East Kentwood High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/janet-vu
- Website: https://jajanet.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22