# Maya Ziv > engineer @ pavilion Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mayaziv I am a positive and fast-learning software engineer focused on making things better - whether that be systems, user experience, security, or the internet! I love to break things and I especially love to fix them. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pavilion Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Censys Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Software Engineer on Censys’s Attack Surface Management platform specializing in building systems and algorithms to attribute internet assets to customers using public and proprietary data sources. - Maintained + debugged legacy attribution systems (python, kubernetes, rabbit, celery) - Maintained + extended lightweight rule-based-system inference engine and encapsulating microservice to enable self-service customer onboarding (golang, postgres, kubernetes, helm, gitlab CI/CD) - Designed, built, documented, and optimized low-latency REST APIs to support new user flow around self-service customer onboarding (golang, postgres, kubernetes) - Conducted research to evaluate efficacy of potential new datasets and evaluate improvement once they were incorporated (google colab, python) - Contributed to design and building of data ingestion pipeline for new public or proprietary datasets to support both production usage and research access (airflow, bash, python, kubernetes, Bigquery, terraform) - Conducted technical and behavioral interviews for software and data engineering candidates ### Internet Measurement Researcher @ Stanford Empirical Security Research Group Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Stanford, California, United States Collected an open database of information about the 90,000 autonomous systems that make up the internet to support internet measurement research Queried >8 APIs and scraped databases/webpages in Python to train classifiers and perform entity matching Paper published in IMC https://asdb.stanford.edu/ ### Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant @ Stanford Internet Observatory Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Stanford, California, United States Designed curriculum for 200 students in Stanford's Trust and Safety Engineering class Programmed fundamentals of automated moderation Discord bot in Python as starter code for the final project using Perspective and Discord's APIs TAed for the HackLab class, leading hands-on labs to teach security concepts ### Section Leader @ Stanford University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Teaching sections, grading and preflighting assignments/tests, and holding office hours for the CS106 classes at Stanford. Helped design and implement an online assessment format. ### Physics Programming Intern @ Epic Games Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Converted existing unit-testing framework into GTest Wrote more than 100 unit tests for implicit objects, raycasting, and GJK collision in C++ Reduced compile times by 10% from ~4 minutes by developing a tool to warn against include cycles/redundancy, improving developer efficiency across teams ### Event Director, Counselor, and Theater Instructor @ The Wayfinder Experience Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Holmes, NY Built 2 video games and 3 Discord bots for online experience Co-directed a week of overnight camp: wrote and ran schedules for each day, managed the needs of both campers and staff, responded to emergencies Wrote and orchestrated three 50-100 person live action adventure games Communicated project requirements between departments Taught improvisation workshops ### Director Of Technology @ Event Horizon LARP Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Brought to life 4+ interactive mechanical and digital set pieces for over 100 players Designed and developed hacking mini game in Unity, hosted inside those set pieces Programmed arduinos as supplements (keypads, lights, sensors, etc.) Budgeted funds and coordinated team members, oversaw all stages of projects Kickstarter raised $22,000 (50%) in five hours, featured as one of Kickstarter's "Projects We Love" ### Social Media Manager @ Event Horizon LARP Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Publicizing via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr; assisting in web design and development Kickstarter raised $22,000 (50%) in five hours: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1224641808/event-horizon-larp ### Design and Development Intern @ Thekla, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed game mechanics and interactions between game objects, exploring possibility space Debugged edge cases and decided their outcomes Learned a new programming language (Jai) to contribute to the game's codebase Built 76 levels to be shipped in Thekla's newest game Helped facilitate communication between game designers, artists, and developers ### President @ FRC Team 3128 The Aluminum Narwhals Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Canyon Crest Academy Commended with Engineering Inspiration Award, Entrepreneurship Award, Creativity in Engineering Award Placed 3rd in San Diego Regional Qualifying Competition, qualified for International Championships ### Head of Public Relations, Team Organizer @ TEDxYouth@SanDiego Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 Raised $30,000 from local San Diego partners Organized newspaper/television coverage and publicized event via social media ### Research/Development Intern @ LuminX Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Researched and iteratively designed and tested a 3D modeled/printed prototype ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ### High School in General Canyon Crest Academy Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mayalziv --- Source: https://flows.cv/mayaziv JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mayaziv/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23