# Olivia Smith

> Software Engineer @ Alloy | Ex-Google

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/oliviasmith

Former farm-town kid turned frontend software engineer 🚜👩‍💻

please do not contact me about ai startup opportunities

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Alloy
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
building, breaking, + delivering things

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
- independently delivered front end code changes for a customer-facing web-based messaging experience, connecting Search users with merchants
- assisted in delivering Away Mode for Google Business Messaging
- ensured testing suite is up to date alongside code functionality changes
- given UX mocks, identify required changes & write design + launch proposals accordingly
- communicated cross-teams to align on engineering processes & get design feedback
- proactively identified code health issues & testing pipeline fixes outside of product work priorities
- drove service outage reports

### Software Engineer @ American Express
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- maintained customer-facing front-end experience with an emphasis in market scalability
- developed and delivered a brand new experience (specifically: Amex’s Banking and Checking product release) within a team setting
- followed and maintained CICD measures within the large-scale organization
- contributed to centralized internal documentation for other employees to learn from
- developed internal tools outside of immediate product releases / required responsibilities to save developers’ time and improve developers’ experience
- presented technical concepts to colleagues + VP’s + SVP

### Software Engineer Intern @ American Express
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
- built an internal debugging tool / chrome extension from the ground up using Javascript's React framework over 4 weeks in a group of 4 interns
- ensured continuous integration / development and code style rules were followed via git hooks and git lab tests
- internationalized extension to allow for additional languages to be added

### Software Product Sprint Student @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- participated in an invite-only 12 week training program that trains students on industry workflow
- built full-stack web apps individually and within a team setting using HTML / CSS / JavaScript and Java
- received mentorship from a Senior Google Engineer throughout app development
Read more about the program here:
https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs/softwareproductsprint/

### Software Engineer Intern @ American Express
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States
-Created a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) feature for an internal tool aimed to improve productivity and assist administrators 
-Developed front-end using React-Redux and Bootstrap libraries
-Collaborated with one other intern in an AGILE work environment

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Computing Research Association
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
-Collaborated with peers on the creation of a large-scale research study in the Computer Science field
-Analyzed data from multiple semesters of a 200+ student course in excel
-Presented individually-developed projects in front of 50+ researchers

https://cra.org/cra-wp/2018-dreu-participants/


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020

### PSEO Student
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/olivia-smith-6833b315a

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Last updated: 2026-03-20