# Swati Swaminathan

> Helping companies cut carbon at Watershed :)

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

Software engineer & musician

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Watershed
Jan 2022 – Present
Building product to measure and reduce the financed carbon emissions of the investment portfolios of financial institutions.

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Worked on homepage of the app (ML, analytics), pricing team, and internal tooling.

### Learning Assistant @ UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Winter 2020: CS 32 (Data Structures and Algorithms)
Fall 2020: CS 30 (Principles and Practices of Computing)

Facilitated weekly discussion sections, provided group work problem sheets, and held weekly office hours to answer conceptual questions and help debug code

### SWE Intern @ Lyft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Worked on Basemap team in addressing text correctness, spam and vulgarity in map text fields. 
- Productionized table of metrics generated on every text field daily
- Visualized text field correctness metrics in a comprehensive scorecard
- Identified 3000 fields to be checked by data curation, as well as text fields containing racist language to aid the conversation about eliminating racism in map data
- Trained a model to detect irregularities in text fields with 95% average precision using text metrics table

### Events Director @ UCLA Society of Women Engineers
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Event organizing and fundraising

### Undergraduate Research Intern @ UCLA Interconnected and Integrated Bioelectronics Laboratory
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California
User authentication for mobile health app

### Undergraduate Research Intern @ NYU Music and Audio Research Laboratory
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York
Developed program for impulsive sound detection in audio files by performing a
high-pass filter and analyzing peaks in the waveform

### Student Office Coordinator @ University Apartments North
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Los Angeles, CA
Front desk and office assistance


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
UCLA

### Minor in Music Industry
UCLA

### Presentation High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/swati-swaminathan-b7b97460

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Last updated: 2026-04-13