# Yulia Tolskaya

> Software Engineer at Lever

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yuliatolskaya

full stack web engineer with experience in machine learning and NLP;

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Lever
Jan 2019 – Present

### Professional Freelancer @ Contract Work
Jan 2018 – Present
Completed several as a fullstack freelance engineer
 - brought two national discount retailers' websites up to ADA compliancy (making them accessible to screen readers, and keyboard only users)
 - added features to web apps with Angular JS/Rails stacks

### Software Engineer @ Pandora
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
- Worked as a full stack engineer on the web team to accomplish a total visual and experiential redesign of the Pandora web app, while taking the back end from BackBone to React 

- made changes to the web app to meet accessibility guidelines, while providing feedback about accessibility for future updates

-worked with product management team to create better user behavior tracking through Google Analytics

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Labs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked with clients ranging from early startups to Fortune 500 corporations to teach them how to build software in a modern, agile way with Extreme Programming techniques such as TDD and pair programming. 

- Quickly became efficient in new codebases and technology rangin from Rails/Javascript based web applications, Spring/Java backends, to iOS apps (written in Objective-C and Swift) and everything in-between

- Brought test coverage from 0 to over 90% on multiple projects (scores through CodeClimate) increasing confidence in frequent production pushes and rapid change

- Worked closely with design and product management teams to quickly reach an MVP and iterate on it

### Software Engineer @ Spongecell
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco
-Software Engineer for an online advertising startup 
-Migrated reporting data from mysql to elasticsearch and Storm flow, for better scalability 
-Improved tool for ad trafficking, saving users time and reducing possibility of human error

### Software Engineer @ Magnetic
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | NYC
Software Engineer/Data Engineer for an online advertising startup that is the leader in search retargeting
Expanded the algorithm semantically mapping user searches to campaigns
Provided reports of user activity, data provider activity and data quality from logs using Pig, Hadoop, Python and NLTK

### Co-Founder @ Vogueable
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
•	Created an Android app for a personalized shopping experience.
•	The application allows users to like and dislike fashion items, create wish-lists, and buy items directly from Amazon. The Application picks items based on users’ tastes.

### Research Assistant @ Community resource for Heritage Languages: pragmatics of Heritage Russian
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
•	Selected by professor to aid research of Russian heritage speakers;
•	Developed and modified annotation tools for the creation of a corpus of Russian spoken by native and heritage speakers;

### Research Assistant, Web Developer @ Cohen Center for Modern Judaic Studies
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
	Developed content and forms for jdata.com using ColdFusion, HTML and SQL to produce custom reports with common fields and benchmarks to make comparisons of comparable organizations more efficient
	Contributed to database optimization and making data input more efficient for  birthright.com and jdata.com 
	Conducted phone surveys in English and Russian to learn more about the Jewish population in different communities throughout the USA;
	Contributed to databases of Jewish Educational Facilities using SugarCRM – a customer relationship management system, to communicate with schools across the country;

### Research Assistant @ Speech Technology Consortium
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
	Selected by professor to collect annotated references to art in speech recognition industry to make both prior art and basic research more convenient and productive;
	Organized a database of speech technology systems, speech recognition patents and papers using content management systems, like Drupal;


## Education
### BA in Linguistics, Computer Science
Brandeis University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yulia-tolskaya-252b1934

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Last updated: 2026-04-10