# Natalie Swan

> Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Reddit

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/natalieswan

Machine Learning | Data Engineering | Cybersecurity | Music

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Present
Developer Experience and Development Environment

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Ads Optimization and Modeling

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Foursquare
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York
PlaceSnap team:
- developing one of the core location intelligence products: machine learning powered, multisensor Snap-to-Place system
- working on improving location prediction accuracy
- extracting insights from data obtained from our partners

### Data Engineering Fellow @ Insight Data Science
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
•	Implemented CopyCatcher (https://github.com/nataliest/copycatch), a computer vision powered service that quickly filters almost 600GB of Open Images Dataset files to find a copy of an uploaded image 
•	Set up a Spark cluster for running image upload and comparison scripts, AWS Elasticache/Redis for storing image tags and metadata, and S3 for storing raw image files; utilized Bash and Python libraries
•	Compared performance of databases (Redis vs. Neo4j) to find the best fit for cataloguing the dataset
•	Created a web application showing detailed image upload and comparison statistics using Flask and HTML/CSS.

### Computer Science and Electric Circuits Tutor @ New York University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Object-Oriented Programming, Algorithms, and Data Structures in Python and C++;
Fundamentals of Electric Circuits: DC and AC circuit analysis.

### Fellow @ The Impact Fellowship
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Freelance Software Developer @ Self-Employed
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Audio plug-in design in C++ using JUCE toolbox.

### Research Assistant @ NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Project: Multi-Dimensional Sound Synthesis: https://github.com/nataliest/Physical_Modelling_Lebedeva_Singh 
Physical Modeling of String, Drum, and Higher-Dimensional Sounds

### Recording Studio Technician @ New York University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Recording studio equipment maintenance.

### Volunteer @ American Classical Orchestra
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | 133 West 70th Street, New York, NY 10023

### Full Time Executive Assistant @ Beethoven Pianos Inc
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Manhattan, New York
Piano Inventory Manager, answering calls, various office tasks, scheduling appointments, personal assistant to the owner of the store


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
New York University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Music Technology
New York University

### Diploma in Harp, Music Studies
Children’s School of Music #2


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31