# Sophia Pounds

> Software Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems

Location: Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sophiapounds

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ General Dynamics Mission Systems
Jan 2015 – Present
-Worked in a team of about 20 to develop advanced cryptographic capabilities for a certified encryption device.
-Wrote code in C++ to help conduct secure asymmetric key exchanges over the network.
-Assisted in the implementation of encryption algorithms and storage of secure key material.
-Helped in the development of a system to manage integrity through PKI certificates.
-Ran ad hoc stress tests to dig out flaws inside product software.
-Automated complex tests using scripts in Perl, Ruby, and Python
-Solved numerous software bugs with usage of the eclipse debugger.

### Traffic Engineering Intern @ EverQuote
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
-Worked in a team of two to program software in Python that detected common behaviors of users of our company's websites based on their number of previous visits and the duration between visits. 
-Constructed a large data warehouse in MySQL to store the results gathered. 
-Provided documentation for future usage and development of the code for after we left the internship.

### Email Engineering Intern @ Dyn
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
-Programmed a tool in Python for analyzing email sending patterns among customers. 
-The tool processed data parsed from log files and stored it in a local database using SQL. 
-Developed an API and proper documentation for using the tool effectively.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Robotics Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sophia-pounds-01580b64

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Last updated: 2026-03-31