# Neil Fitzgerald > Software Engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/neilfitzgerald Software engineer with over 7 years of full-time experience. MIT graduate (2014). Technical Experience: - Software Engineer at Vise. Built a new pipeline for tracking and submitting orders at scale, and integrating with an OMS. - Software Engineer at Dropbox. Built key enterprise features on the Scaled Experiences team; helped manage a major cost-saving migration ($1M/year) on the Virtualization team. - Software Engineer / Data Scientist at MindMeld. Improved (and created tools for improving) the accuracy of our named-entity recognition models for three different applications. - Software Engineer at Travelnuts. Built core product features such as in-flow order cancellation and modification, and integrated our technology with partners in the hotel industry. - Security Consulting Intern at iSEC Partners. Participated in a variety of security assessments (mobile, web, cryptography, hardware). - Intern at Google. Worked on the backend for Google's Knowledge Graph. - Undergraduate researcher in MIT's Humans and Automation Lab and (separately) MIT CSAIL. - Three-time intern at Thomson Reuters. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Airtable Jan 2024 – Present | New York, NY ### Software Engineer @ Gem Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Full stack engineer on the sourcing team. Co-designed and built Gem's first application review workflow and integrated OpenAI into drafting and messaging workflows. ### Software Engineer @ Vise Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, NY Backend engineering (Go, Python). Built new systems for scaling daily trading operations, via OMS integration and block trading. ### Software Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA Major achievements on Scaled Experiences team (01/2020-11/2020): - Federation search, a major requirement for Dropbox's single largest customer (over 250k seats) - Frame-precise comments, a marquee feature for our media offering in Q4 2020 - Managed an successful intern to a return offer Major achievements on Virtualization team (01/2018-12/2019): - Built robust automated provisioning tooling for a major migration of 100+ hosts from SJC to PDX (saving Dropbox $1M/year), setting up the hosts and syncing the correct set of fresh images - Performed a major analysis of recurring outages in vCenter, our VM manager software Major achievements on Code Workflows team (10/2016-12/2017): - Built "stacked diffs" tooling to allow developers to continue to work on top of diffs that are currently awaiting review ### Software Engineer @ MindMeld, Inc Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA Backend engineering (Python) and data science work, with a focus on improving our machine learning models. Brought named entity recognition accuracy from below 50% to well above 90% for two major projects, and developed new tools to make the process easier. Co-developed a major architecture change for handling multi-part dialogues. ### Software Engineer @ Travelnuts, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA Backend engineering (Node.JS). Integrated our backend with new property management systems, including updates to support more complex transaction structures. ### Security Engineering Intern @ iSEC Partners Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA Participated in a variety of security assessments, including: a mobile application test on both iOS and Android; a web application test; a cryptography review; and a hardware review. ### "Super" UROP @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | MIT Built and tested a new type of tool to perform "fuzz testing" of applications based on the PeachFuzz framework. Successfully found vulnerabilities in older versions of certainly widely-known applications. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA Developed a code generator that provides a more friendly access API to the backend of Google’s Knowledge Graph. Worked through extensive code reviews with experienced developers. ### UROP @ MIT Humans and Automation Lab Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | MIT Developed an iPad app prototype for a moving map display to be used in a study by locomotive engineers. Involved in discussions about human factors and design. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Thomson Reuters Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Eagan, MN Collaborated with a full team of developers and testers in an Agile environment on developing an e-reader app for iPad, ProView, completed in August 2011. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Thomson Reuters Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Eagan, MN Programmed in Objective-C for the iPhone and iPad, and made fixes and additions for various apps and created proof-of-concept implementations of various ideas for a potential e-reader. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Thomson Reuters Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Eagan, MN Tested the use of a column-oriented database. Independently set up the database in a Linux environment on multiple home boxes, and ran extensive testing. ## Education ### BS in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Dual Enrollment Student University of Minnesota ### Eden Prairie High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-fitzgerald-33688448 --- Source: https://flows.cv/neilfitzgerald JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/neilfitzgerald/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13