# Marta L.

> Staff Software Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/martal

I am into distributed systems, algorithms, optimization techniques and other ways to handle data. Code is craft, and I like to work on challenging problems and get results.

I am very comfortable with C++ and Python.

When I'm not coding, I read CS research papers (some of my favorites are papers on MapReduce and Spark, and, of course, "On Computable Numbers, With An Application To Entscheidungsproblem" by brilliant Alan Turing), because I believe it’s the core of computer science. 

When I am not reading papers, I draw. Check out artblvd.blogspot.com, which landed me multiple graphic design freelance projects.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Stellar Development Foundation
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer, Core @ Stellar Development Foundation
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Driving scalability and security initiatives for the underlying peer-to-peer overlay infrastructure of the Stellar network.

### Software Engineer, Core @ Stellar Development Foundation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California
Contributor to stellar-core (https://github.com/stellar/stellar-core), a C++ implementation of a distributed ledger. Stellar-core achieves consensus via the Stellar Consensus Protocol (a Federated Byzantine Agreement system).

### Software Engineer @ Pandora
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Oakland, California
Built pieces of music ingestion backend pipeline as part of Data Science and Music Engineering Team. 
- Core contributor to the music matching system, that matched newly incoming content with Pandora's catalog. 
- Core contributor to the grouping system, which is used to cluster similar musical entities (tracks, albums, artists, labels) through several machine learning models.


## Education
### Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01