# Olivia Lau

> Software Engineer at Stripe

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineering Manager @ Fortify
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Strategically shaped the company’s product roadmap to align with core business
objectives, while leading a team of engineers and driving cross-functional
collaboration among multi-disciplinary groups

### Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead @ Fortify
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
- Designed, developed, and brought to market a printer monitoring dashboard
boosting revenue by enhancing operational efficiency and product functionality.
- Launched the company’s cloud solution on Google Cloud Platform which
optimized data analysis and storage capabilities, significantly improved system
reliability and performance.

### Software Engineer @ Fortify
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Boston, MA
- Directed the successful transition of all software products to the Vue.js framework,
improving system scalability/maintainability and reducing technical debt.

### Software Engineer @ Raytheon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | United States
Patriot Modernization
Integrated Defense Systems

### Computational Brain Imaging Research @ College of the Holy Cross
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Identify presence and degree of severity of Parkinson's disease using PET imaging.
Compute spatial covariance patterns using principal component analysis.
Develop predictive models to estimate UPDRS scores based on explanatory variables derived from partial least squares analysis.

### Teaching Assistant @ College of the Holy Cross
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Worcester, MA
Assisted students in Techniques of Programming class (CSCI 131 & CSCI 132). 
Worked closely with computer science students in a laboratory setting
Grade weekly lab assignments, helped students debug programs, tutored for exams.
Explained complicated concepts

### Math Tutor @ College of the Holy Cross
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Worcester, MA
Worked with Calculus 1 & 2 students to develop the skills needed to do well in class, on exams, and on assignments.

### Department Assistant @ College of the Holy Cross
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Worcester, MA
Assisted the Educational Technology department.
Worked closely with Holy Cross professors to create websites using HTML.
Regularly contacted various departments to update their web page, and manage student and faculty accounts on Moodle.

### Speech, Language & Multimedia Intern @ Raytheon BBN Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA
Analyzed keyword search results, conducted performance testing on the keyword search engine, updated source code documentation.
Improved and fixed bugs in existing Java, Python, and Perl code.
Gained experience with version control systems: developed a project to automate the update, merge, compile, and build of source code from GitLab on a local machine with an efficient dependency order.

### Intern @ Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Vision Lab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Boston, MA
Created optical illusions for testing in MatLab, tested the ability of the naked eye to detect frequency of color changes on a surface


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science and Mathematics
College of the Holy Cross

### High School Diploma
Thayer Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/0livia-lau

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Last updated: 2026-03-31