# Tanya Smith

> Software Engineer at Persona

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tanyasmith

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Persona
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Transposit
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
AI-augmented cloud platform allowing users to integrate software services in a low-to-no-code workflow automation builder. Automations could be run from the web, through a Slack app integration, and automatically via webhook or event triggers.
-  full stack (backend focus) with on-call shifts in a fast-paced startup environment with quickly evolving, sometimes ambiguous product requirements
-  distributed system with event-driven architecture, microservices

frequent collaboration, but features personally owned included:
-  built feature allowing automations to pause and request input asynchronously, resume once input is provided, and reference the input in further logic
-   built notification system around automation lifecycle events
-   refactored event-driven architecture using SNS and SQS to fan out events to different queues, decoupling publishers from consumers for performance and extensibility
-   redesigned automation data model to be more modular and reusable
-   performance improvements such as pagination, partial fetching, caching, batching

### Software Engineer @ Transposit
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Software Intern (MIT M.Eng. thesis) @ Cadence Design Systems
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
MIT M.Eng. thesis research. Built machine learning software in Python using PyTorch, aiming to make power supply circuit simulation faster and more convergent.

### Robotics Intern, Kubota Lab @ JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Designed and tested a prototype stereo vision system for hopping subterranean robots. Built software in Python to generate a 3D point cloud reconstruction of the environment using video data from a moving stereo camera.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Rev.com
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA
Full stack iOS development for a math tutoring app with Swift frontend and C# backend. Developed UI features and a new backend credits system for discounted packages.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Tye Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, MA
Assisted with histology, microscopy, and data analysis for optogenetic behavioral experiments with mice at the Tye Lab in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### High School
Marin Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tanikapod

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Last updated: 2026-03-28