# Julia Semeraro

> Software Engineer at Jellyfish

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/juliasemeraro

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Jellyfish
Jan 2022 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ Smart Eye
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Affectiva is now a Smart Eye company. I work in the Media Analytics department, continuously enhancing a robust market research tool.

Enhanced a widely used market research tool with new features, providing value and clarity for customers. 
Migrated the application from Groovy on Grails to Ruby on Rails while working in Python for the processing code.
Sped up a core processor 10x by reworking the database and how we can query to ensure quicker look ups.

### Software Engineer @ Affectiva
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston Area

### Full Stack Developer Co-op @ Blueport Commerce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
- Delivered a major Angular 6 widget with an Agile team in order to create a smooth user experience for personalizing a furniture purchase before the holiday sale season
- Optimized major furniture platforms for mobile responsiveness while maintaining style consistency for existing pages and new features using Sass
- Enhanced developer productivity by providing new features for an internal deployment website such as a concise home page, displaying build information from Jenkins and test information, and an interactive d3.js graph, allowing developers to visually understand test data

### Software Engineer Co-op @ Affectiva
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts
- Collaborated with another developer to produce a new product for Affectiva, happy.cam, a social sharing site that employ's emotion AI to create GIFs of your natural reactions to content
- Implemented OAuth sign-in on my website for Facebook, Twitter, and Google
- Managed MySQL and Amazon Redshift databases
- Transformed a Ruby on Rails application into an Engine
- Followed the MVC pattern and was always OO conscientious
- Delivered new User Interfaces and optimized for mobile responsiveness for happy.cam

### Convention Guide @ Walt Disney World
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Orlando, Florida
- Completed the Disney College Program within the  Special Events and Operations Department 
- Learned the inner workings of and assisted in big events, i.e. the Food and Wine Festival, Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party, and the Candlelight Processional, and smaller events,  i.e. weddings and corporate events
- Trained in leadership and guest services by a top Fortune 500 Company


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Northeastern University

### Villa Walsh Academy


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-28