# Valerie Sizemore > No, I will not work at your AI startup Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/valeriesizemore I am an engineer who is fascinated with performance analysis and optimization. At many places I have worked I have wound up being the "performance guy;" at my next role I'd like to work on performance problems full time. ## Work Experience ### Community Organizer @ StopAI Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Generative AI technology (LLM's, GPT's, etc) is dangerous, and rapidly accelerating most of our social and environmental problems. I do not use them at all, and don't think anyone else should either. I am helping run an organization devoted to building a coalition to pressure all further development of the technology to stop. This platform suggesting I use Artificial Creativity to write this very descriptions is disgusting. I will NEVER outsource that faculty to a machine. No I will not come work at your AI startup. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Gateless, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote Worked on a team that integrated an automated mortgage underwriting system with third party data sources. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Angle Health Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Onboarding at a startup health insurance company using python. I was laid off due to the recent market downturn. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 Consulting on a variety of one-off projects. • Database performance optimization • Designing data analysis workflows • Data integrity analysis • Volunteer work in computational linguestics at UC Berkeley • Optimizing the formula evaluation engine for an online speadsheet-like tool ### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Music Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked on the Music Subscriptions Team, mainly on a project to expand the service into new markets. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Level Money℠ Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area I work on the Clojure backend for a personal finance mobile application. Some projects here that I am particularly proud of: * Profiled and optimized key sections of legacy business logic to support a major architectural change to our API. I increased performance by well over 10x, and quickly removed the problems as an obstacle to a major release. * Refactored Level's tool for customer support agents to be easier to use and easier to modify ### Software Engineer @ Quantlab Financial Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Pleasanton, CA Quantlab is a dynamic, technology-driven firm supporting a large-scale quantitative trading operation across a wide range of global financial markets. Founded in 1998, Quantlab is an established presence in quantitative investment management with a track record of consistent profitability under varying market conditions. ### Software Engineer @ Geostellar Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Menlo Park, CA I did backend software engineering for a company that helps customers see how much they can save by installing solar panels. I worked on several C++ programs including a simulation of sun exposure for every rooftop in the US, and a program to process the various government incentives for solar installations. ### Research Software Engineer @ Ecological Services and Markets, LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 I maintained and extended a Spatially Explicit, Individual Based Population Model using C++ to support management of endangered species habitat. I was responsible for working closely with biologists to integrate field data and mathematical models of biological processes into a software package to predict the importance of habitat parcels to several species. Duties included working with Geographic Information Systems to extract information form field data relevant to the simulation, and transform it into data formats used by the simulation. I was also responsible for maintaining data visualisation applications to allow managers and stakeholders to understand the data generated by the simulation. ### Network Crew @ Warren Wilson College Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 I assisted the College Network Administrator. My duties included administering Linux servers, maintaining the physical network, and troubleshooting network errors. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Mathematics and Computer Science Warren Wilson College Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### Indian Springs School Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tarwatirno --- Source: https://flows.cv/valeriesizemore JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/valeriesizemore/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22