# Miranda Howitt-Tarara > AI Senior Software Engineer at Lattice Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/miranda Experienced full stack Software Engineer with over 5 years of building and delivering high-quality, end-to-end solutions. Proven track record of executing complex projects both independently and within collaborative, high-performing teams. Skilled at navigating ambiguity, solving open-ended problems, and approaching challenges with a methodical, solutions-oriented mindset. Strong focus on product quality and reliability, with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues. Committed to continuous learning and building software that meaningfully improves user experience. Currently part of the AI team at Lattice, where I’m focused on developing thoughtful, user-centric AI products. Working across the stack to build intelligent features that help people work smarter—leveraging tools like LangChain, OpenAI, and custom retrieval systems to power real-world, impactful experiences. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Lattice Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area **Currently** - Senior Product/AI Engineer - Lattice AI Team - Played a key role in developing advanced RAG solutions and agentic architectures leveraging LangChain, LangGraph, TypeScript, OpenAI, NestJS and AWS Knowledge Bases, while simultaneously building React frontend features that effectively showcase and leverage these AI capabilities - Actively contributed to the development of a conversational AI assistant, significantly improving user engagement and product satisfaction metrics - Contributed significantly to the design and implementation of an innovative writing assistant feature within our core product, enhancing user productivity and content quality - Led several projects in an Agile environment, facilitating sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives - Developed and maintained robust ML evaluation frameworks for our AI assistant using MLFlow, Python, and Jupyter Notebooks. - Collaborated on architecting and maintaining sophisticated serialization (s11n) pipelines to efficiently process and transfer complex data structures. - Fostered cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other product engineering teams at Lattice to deliver cohesive user experiences - Accumulated 1 year (thus far) of specialized experience working with cutting-edge AI technologies and frameworks. ### Software Engineer @ Lattice Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ NABIS Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Full stack developer at the startup Nabis (YC W19) using React (16.8+), React-Native, NodeJS, GraphQL, Apollo, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, SQL, Docker, AWS, microservices and mono-repos. ### Software Engineer II @ Dovenmuehle Mortgage, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Member of small agile development team creating applications for a large financial services company using technologies such as React (with Hooks!), Redux, Redux Saga, MySQL and Node.js • Took on responsibilities to lead a new project from start to UTA testing within my first two months with the company. This included setting up Elastic Beanstalk, S3, continuous with Travis, and deploying the app on AWS and on-prem. • Worked on a redesign of one of the companies biggest client facing applications, where I helped in UI/UX design, built several core features, as well as spearheaded the mobile responsive initiative for the app. ### Software Engineer Intern @ SS&C Advent Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Refactored several components to be more reusable and cut down on excess code. • Converted and redesigned the application’s Permissions and Calendar pages to React/Redux from AngularJS. • Collaborated with engineers and BA’s to help develop and implement new front end features and improve user experience. ### Full Stack Engineer - Contractor @ Tunelark Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Tunelark's mission is use technology to make learning music more fun, efficient, and accessible. • Worked closely with the CTO to develop a major full stack feature to better engage their user-base (which grew by 21% per week over the course of the spring semester). The game records audio, and stores them in AWS S3. In play mode, our feature plays these audio files and uses them to teach and test a student’s ability to identify and play music on a virtual piano. • Built several features for the Tunelark app, including a leaderboard that allows students to see the top five scores ranked by week/month/all time, and a streak feature that calculates the number of days in a row that the current user has played one of the games. All features are 100% compatible across multiple devices through responsive design. • Enhanced UI and fixed 50+ bugs (on the backend and frontend) on a codebase with 50+ models, 50+ controllers, and 100+ React components. • Increased test coverage for front-end and backend functionality by 150% using Enzyme, Jasmine, and Rspec. ### Office Manager @ Fandom Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California • Managed the day-to-day office operations, including: policies and procedures (formulation and adherence), vendor relationships (lunch and dinner catering, break room refreshment services, janitorial, etc.), conference room scheduling, site security, employee perks, creating a positive and happy workplace. • Managed facilities related expenses. Worked with Finance to create a Facilities budget for equipment purchases, supplies, employee activities, office food expense, maintenance expense and any other office related expense items. • Coordinated space management and planning activities including: analyzing moves for minimal disruption, move coordination, space inventory and maximizing space utilization. ### Executive Assistant and Office Administrator @ StumbleUpon Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 • Providing executive level administrative support in the daily functions of two CEOs with additional basic support to two Vice Presidents. • High-level communication and interaction with internal and external Executives. Ample amount of comfort with all levels of Management including C-level and SVP level Executives. • Dynamic calendar management involving last minute changes, updates, and rescheduling. Understanding of priorities, logistics, and short and long term effects of such changes, both personal and in business. • Travel research, booking, and management. Creating domestic and international travel arrangements, understanding of personal preferences, and quick rescheduling if need be. • Building/facilities management. Liaison for janitorial, maintenance, contractor, food and beverage teams. Properly uses company resources to quickly identify and manage needs of building and occupants. • Sole recruiting coordinator in charge of posting job openings, scheduling phone and onsite interviews (using applicant tracking system such as Lever and Jobvite) in our New York and San Francisco offices, and creating new onboarding techniques for all new employees. • Creating and managing team events and parties, including team building, intern outings, holiday celebrations, happy hours, training and third party meet-ups. On and offsite meeting set up; catering, ground transportation, vendor relationships. As well as researching offsite venues and vetting services if need be. • Creating and maintaining expense reports, purchase orders, and corporate credit card reconciliation. • Maintaining the current and previous stock option records and immigration files of employees. • Main receptionist in charge of greeting clients, mail distribution, package shipping, office supply orders, while maintaining the aesthetic integrity of the office. • Assisting in various projects with the objective of improving Marketing, HR, Ad Ops and Sales strategies. ### Administrative Assistant @ CCUSA Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Sausalito, CA CCUSA’s Work Experience program gives university students the opportunity to experience life in the US as more than just a tourist. Working and living with Americans and other internationals gives you a unique perspective on the “every day” USA. CCUSA's Work Experience program has earned a reputation as the premier J-1 international work placement program. We are a US Department of State designated sponsor of the Summer Work Travel J1 visa and have been helping young people from all over the world since 1996 to have the experience of a lifetime as they work and travel in the USA. As an Administrative Assistant my duties included: - Answering phones. -Helping students maintain their Visa by following the government deadlines. -Filing and recording calls and concerns from the participants and employers on the program. - Problem solving through either e-mail or phone. - Overseeing over 87- 2,050 students each season. - Researching the employers and the areas where the participant are working. - Creating and designing web pages for students' use and interaction. - Providing the students with local activities and attractions in their area. ## Education ### Computer Software Engineering Rithm School Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor's degree in Psychology New York University Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ### Bachelor's degree in Psychology Wheaton College Massachusetts Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 ### International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma French American International High School ### French American International High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mirandahowitt --- Source: https://flows.cv/miranda JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/miranda/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22