# Julianne Louie > Prev. SWE Intern @ Pendo | Computer Science & Mathematics @ Pomona College Location: Kingston, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/juliannelouie I’m a senior at Pomona College, double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, with a passion for building technology that solves real-world problems. I co-founded PICKUP (p-ickup.com) to make student transportation safer and more affordable. PICKUP matches students traveling to the same destinations at the same time, helping them save 25–75% per rideshare! As a goalie, I thrive on speed and grit, which are the same qualities I bring to full-stack engineering. As a SWE intern at unicorn startup Pendo.io, I shipped AI agents, MCP servers, and a bot-filtering system in less than 10 weeks. At PICKUP, I led an 8-person engineering team to build and launch the platform in under 3 months. ## Work Experience ### Co-founder & Founding Software Engineer @ PICKUP Jan 2025 – Present Visit us at p-ickup.com! Students face steep transportation costs (like $100+ Uber rides to airports) without reliable or affordable alternatives. PICKUP solves this by matching students traveling to the same destinations, enabling them to share rides and split costs. ● Founded and scaled a campus rideshare-matching platform, matching students to split airport rides and save 25–75% per ride ● Serving 2,000+ students in our trial run for a future licensing contract ● Architected a scalable full-stack system (React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, edge functions, authentication, ML) with secure REST API communication and relational schema design ● Led an 8-engineer Agile team, managing sprints, reviews, and deployment to production in <3 months ### Computer Science Dept. Teaching Assistant @ Pomona College Jan 2024 – Present TA for Data Structures & Advanced Programming, Computer Systems, Intro to Languages and Theory Conducted weekly mentor sessions and labs for 80 students to teach concepts like object-oriented programming, memory hierarchy, multithreading, & concurrency ### Grutor for Database Systems @ Harvey Mudd College Jan 2026 – Present Grutoring (grading + tutoring) for CS133 Database systems, including teaching how to write SQL and code MySQL from scratch in labs ### Research Assistant @ Harvey Mudd College Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 Utilized OpenCV and Linux to process 200+ hours of video to transform raw footage into structured data frames Used R to create statistical analyses and visualizations across 4 data frames ### Software Engineering Intern @ Pendo.io Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States 🔹 Bot Detection & Filtering: Built a full-stack solution to identify & filter web crawlers for cleaner analytics & fairer pricing for clients, while reducing Pendo’s infrastructure costs. 🔹 AI-Powered Trends: Delivered the backend foundation (2 API endpoints & core database query) that powers an AI agent that surfaces instant insights about user behavior to our clients. 🔹 Synthetic Data Generation: In a 5-person hackathon team, I developed an AI agent with a Model Context Protocol server that generates realistic datasets for safe internal testing & sales demos. ### Software Engineer @ P-ai at the Claremont Colleges Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 P-olygraph Project: Built a full-stack website using React & Tailwind CSS, with Supabase for secure user authentication and PostgreSQL Designed a Flask API to integrate frontend file uploads with the backend machine learning model for lie detection P-mlog: Engineered a full-stack mobile app to automate data collection for machine learning datasets, reducing manual data entry time by 90% for U Miami researchers Coded backend in Dart and UI in Flutter, tailoring the system to specifications for CSV export functionality and efficient participant data management for the 14 types of data collected ### Research Assistant @ UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 First author of our scholarly paper published in CHI '25 and awarded Honorable Mention (top 5% of papers) Determined a new classification system and 4 new terms for the Personal Informatics field Conducted thematic analysis on the 20 interviews that I led Participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) under the advisement of Professor Daniel Epstein (UCI) and in collaboration with Professor Papoutsaki (Pomona College). ### Resident Sponsor @ Pomona College Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 As a sponsor, I have the leadership responsibility of facilitating an inclusive and healthy dormitory community of 20 residents of diverse backgrounds. ### Computer Science Research Mentor Program @ Google Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### UR2PhD - National Virtual Computing Research Mentor Program @ Computing Research Association Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 I was accepted into this highly selective research program. Under the advisement of Pomona College Professor Papoutsaki, myself and 2 peers are conducting health Informatics research on clinical measures and patient reflections to enhance provider-patient communication. I attend weekly classes on the foundations of research, complete assignments, and engage with a peer network of support. ### Software Engineer @ Lombard Hill Group Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Solved website formatting issues using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and saved $5,000+ in website management fees Created proprietary Excel spreadsheets by aggregating and filtering a large database and creating >10,000 high value Excel spreadsheets worth at least $80,000 of new revenue ### Varsity Lacrosse Goalie Coach @ Kingston High School Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 As a Division 3 lacrosse goalie at Pomona College, I coached experienced varsity lacrosse goalies in footwork, hand-eye coordination drills, verbal communication, and game IQ for the winning Kingston High School Varsity Lacrosse team. ### C.A.M.P. Counselor @ Bard College Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Bard College As a C.A.M.P. (Creative and Analytical Math Program) Counselor for two years, I created two separate adaptive curriculums designed especially for student long-term retention that conceptualized Combinatorics and Fractals. Both years, I taught my curriculum to 25 middle schoolers over the course of 1 week. In addition, I supervised and delegated assignments to my 6-person teaching team to maintain the quality of teaching. This is a valuable experience that taught me how to learn, analyze, and teach complicated mathematical concepts in simple language. ## Education ### Mathematics and Computer Science Pomona College Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 ### High School Diploma Kingston High School Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/julianne-louie --- Source: https://flows.cv/juliannelouie JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/juliannelouie/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01