# Monica Anderson

> Ex-Googler Vibe Coding, AI, and Backend Specialist

Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/monicaanderson

IU am currently seeking a position as a CTO or Director of Engineering in an AI startup.

I have spent the past 14 months learning and enhancing Vibe Coding strategies and can now develop full blown moderately complex apps in a matter of days just by myself.

I Created AI Assisted Programming Facebook group. I demonstrated vibe coding at two conferences. I have used Cline, Claude Code, Google Gemini, and OpenAI GPTs. Using Pro level LLM services, Recently created two portfolio apps showcasing AI as a component. 100% vibe coded in 4 days from concept to Cloud.

Before vibe coding, I was a Full Stack Web Application Developer. specializing in Java and Clojure backends, Svelte, Rect, python, or a JavaScript frontend. Used Maven, nginx, https, WebSockets, Spring Boot, Netbeans, VSCode, Postgres, MongoDB, UIMA (IBM Watson framework), BNF, ANTLR, Genetic Algorithms, REST servers. Created de novo API designs and network protocols at all levels from TCP on up.

I am an Ex-Googler with a solid career in industrial strength classical AI, Machine Learning, Compiler technologies, Natural Language Processing and Understanding (NLP/NLU) systems.
I have significant experience with compilers, search technology, evolutionary computing, cloud, chat clients and servers, other short message routers, and I am an Expert Level Java and LISP programmer and systems architect. I created SaaS servers on AWS and Linode. Have worked with speech-to-speech systems including ElevenLabs and Google Gemini.
I also have much experience with Social Media both as a user and as a system designer.
I have had management experience in three positions and have (co-) founded three California C corporations as CTO.

## Work Experience
### Full Stack Developer - AI and Java Backend Specialist @ Syntience Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | Los Altos, California, United States
Web app and AI algorithm development in multiple private projects in the intersection of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence. Full Stack Development. Java Backend Specialist. React, Svelte, Vaadin, or from-scratch frontends.

Since October 2024, almost 3000 hours of Vibe Coding using ChatGPT, Cline Claude, and Claude Code. I have personal interest in AI for medical applications including longevity research.

### Chief Technology Officer @ Syntience Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2025 | Los Altos, CA
Independent research on "Organic Learning" (ongoing since 2001). Initial problem domain is human-like understanding of any natural language by simply reading a corpus in that language. These systems are more suited to language understanding and language generation and may be much cheaper to use than regular Deep Learning.

### CTO @ Sensai Corporation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Silicon Valley, CA
Product idea, definition, and implementation as a web service.
Implementation done as a full stack Java backend and jQuery/JavaScript UI project.
Compute server specification, construction, and installation.
Managing developers
Writing Documentation

### Director of Research @ Syntience Inc.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2013 | Los Altos, CA
Managed two researchers on an ongoing exploration of the Artificial Intuition algorithm for understanding any human language. Devised ways to test AI systems for low levels of emergent understanding of languages and the world they describe. Devised tests for measuring precision and recall in machine learning tasks for general language competence. Devised strategies for language generation. Some software design in Java and Python.

### Member of Technical Staff @ Kosmix
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Mountain View, CA
Created high-speed document tagging system in Python.
Devised methods to analyze Twitter messages.
Created most of pipeline to process twitter messages.
Installed, maintained, and used Hadoop on corporate cluster.
Processed Wikipedia to extract structured information.

### Software Engineer @ Google, Inc.
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Explored several ways to improve the quality of search results based on the natural language of web pages. Also used my skills in European languages to assist others that worked on improving the results of searches in these languages.


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
Linköping University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/syntience
- Website: https://experimental-epistemology.ai/
- Website: https://zerothprinciples.substack.com/
- Website: https://syntience.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-05