# Kamilla Tekiela

> Software Engineer at Apella Technology

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Apella
Jan 2023 – Present
Data Platform

### Co-Founder, CTO @ Encap Health
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Founders Fellow @ Primary Venture Partners
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
The Primary Founders Fellowship is a part-time program that helps entrepreneurs launch new startups. Cohorts are selected and supported by the team at Primary, a top seed-stage venture firm.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Verily
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | South San Francisco, California, United States
Pathology Machine Learning (Q4 2018 - Q2 2022)
• Developed machine learning infrastructure - e.g. data ingestion, quality control, APIs, dashboards, and access control to support cross functional research and product development for medical diagnostics projects. Ingestion pipeline processes petabytes of high resolution pathology images and de-identified clinical data.

Surgical Systems (Q3 2017 - Q4 2018)
• Developed on-device software for Verb Surgical robot (acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2019), including safety architecture, audio drivers, video data upload, and power management.

• Member of Software Hiring Committee (group that makes hire/no-hire decisions).
• Designed curriculum for and led launch of mentorship program for full time employees and interns.
• Recipient of the annual Verily Values Award (Q4 2021).

### Software Engineer @ Verily
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View
Research & Machine Intelligence 
• Built pipelines to convert neuron segmentation and synaptic object prediction heatmaps from terabytes of electron microscopy images into a neuron-to-neuron connectivity structure for facilitating connectomics research.
• Integrated with TensorBoard API to collect metrics and images for keeping track of synapse model’s performance during training.

Shopping Auctions & Thresholds
• Developed tools (implemented API, integrated with frontend, created new visualizations) that allow engineers to interactively explore predicted trade-offs (e.g. click through rate) when tuning their ad auction experiments.

### Intern @ DNAnexus
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
Implemented features, enhancements, and fixes for the DNAnexus cloud-based data analysis and management platform for DNA sequence data.

### Summer Intern @ Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Created program to analyze images of Chick Chorioallontoic Membranes (CAM) to compare effects of calcium and copper releasing nanoparticles on angiogenesis.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ The Picower Institute for Learning & Memory at MIT, Tsai Laboratory
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA
• Characterized cholinergic system degeneration in mouse models of Alzheimer’s-like pathology and its role in neurogenesis.							
• Conducted behavioral experiments studying the effect of enriched environment on neurogenesis. Involved in all stages of collection and analysis of data.
• Performed neurosurgery to infuse virus and trace projection of cholinergic forebrain neurons to better understand how their dysregulation leads to Alzheimer’s disease.


## Education
### Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kamilla-tekiela-82665062

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Last updated: 2026-04-01