# Veronica Gunn > Senior Software Engineer with a Love for Data and Infrastructure Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/veronicagunn ## Work Experience ### Founding Software Engineer @ Stealth Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Backend Software Engineer @ Pavilion Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States - Joined at the seed stage as the 6th employee (3rd engineer), helped grow company through Series A to ~25 employees (10 engineers) - Collaborated with a growing team to build search functionality >300K government contracts and >2 million documents nearly from scratch using Django and Algolia. - Advocated for, designed, and built major segments of the backend and core data pipeline in close collaboration with executive leadership and product. - Architected, implemented, and maintained file storage and management pipeline. Autodetected points of interest in PDF files, managed OCR content, and handled file data from scrapers. Decreased inaccessible or broken files from >30% to <5% across 2 million files. - Owned external development of new scrapers and internal maintenance of existing scrapers. These scrapers parsed government websites and produced virtually all data for Pavilion’s core product. Increased the number of regularly running scrapers from ~5 to >50 and the number of searchable records from ~30K to >300K. - Proposed and led restructuring and refactoring of code and systems across the backend, resulting in significant reduction in time spent maintaining legacy code and higher efficiency across the engineering team. - Interviewed candidates, established onboarding procedures, onboarded new hires, and mentored coworkers from new graduate to senior engineer levels. ### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C. Metro Area - Worked with DoD officials across the Navy to modernize their tech stack using Palantir’s Foundry product. Held a DoD top secret clearance. - Collaborated with client subject matter experts to Integrate 100+ tables from 20+ different legacy data stores into Palantir’s Foundry. Presented and explained Palantir Foundry to government officials with a variety of technical experience levels. - Developed novel dashboards and machine learning algorithms in collaboration with clients and other engineers for DoD use cases. - Wrote, tested, and monitored code screening questions used to evaluate 1000+ university students and conducted 100+ programming interviews. ### Teaching Assistant @ University of Texas Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas I served as a teaching assistant for Data Structures in Fall 2016 and as a teaching assistant for Operating Systems in Spring 2017, Fall 2017, and Spring 2018. As a teaching assistant I led discussion sections of 20 to 30 students, graded student projects and exams, hosted office hours to assist students with projects and questions, and worked on a team of other TAs to ensure student success. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Dropbox Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Washington ● Worked on Desktop team using Python, Jupyter Notebook, SciPy, and Git. ● Expanded stress test code to identify major production bugs in the handling of special paths and folder tagging on OSX and Windows. ● Trained, evaluated, and integrated a machine learning model to automatically classify test failures into multiple categories based on stack traces in test logs. ● Developed streamlined maintenance procedure for error classification model. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Pinterest Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 I worked on the commerce team during a three month internship using Java, Python, Scala, Cascading, Hive, Spark, Hadoop, and Git. During this time I developed a pipeline that simplified machine learning training set and candidate generation to make model training faster, more accessible, and more flexible. After developing this framework I used it to train and implement machine learning models to improve the quality of commerce content shown to users. I committed over 5,000 lines of high quality code and presented my resulting project to team of 30 engineers. ### Tutor @ CodeHS Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Online At CodeHS I graded assignments, developed curriculum, and answered questions from students in grades four through twelve. I worked primarily in Java, Javascript, and HTML. I also tested features for the online web interface and worked with a network of about sixty other tutors. ### Engineering Practicum Intern @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boulder, Colorado I worked on the payments team during a three month internship using primarily Java, JavaScript, and Soy. During this time I collaborated with a partner and 2 full time engineers in order to build a web page that recorded messages and errors. This served to make trouble shooting faster and easier, especially for those within the on call rotation. I integrated this ability into existing services and presented to the payments team on how to further integrate and utilize this service. ## Education ### BS in Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin ### High School Diploma Business Education and Technology Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/veronicagunn --- Source: https://flows.cv/veronicagunn JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/veronicagunn/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29