Serry is a software engineer located in San Francisco, CA who is passionate about ecology, sustainability, and solving problems at scale. She is currently a Staff Engineer at Zipper, where she helps make tools to enable people build more of the things they love. In a previous life, she worked as an infrastructure engineer at Slack and microbiology research assistant at the Klepac-Ceraj Lab in Wellesley College.
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a “bacterium-inspired” doodle and self-portrait
## EXPERIENCE
Staff Backend Engineer → Zipper, CA | 2021 - Present
Software Lead → Onda Design, CA | 2021 - Present
Senior Backend Engineer, Infrastructure → Slack, CA | 2019 – 2021
Backend Engineer, Platform → Slack, CA | 2017 – 2019
Full-Stack Engineer → Bolt, PA | 2017
Microbiology Research Assistant → Klepac-Ceraj Laboratory, MA | 2012 – 2016
## PUBLICATIONS
Organic electron donors and terminal electron acceptors … sulfidic lake → Frontiers | 2021
Preparing for Huge Waves of Traffic via Load Testing → Slack Engineering Blog | 2019
Microbiology and ecology are vitally important to premedical curricula → Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health | 2015
## PATENTS
Remote Data Objects → Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for a group-based communication system interacting with remote resources for remote data objects.
## PROJECTS
Vitess → A database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
SeedKit → A practical, experimental laboratory resource for secondary school students in low-resource classrooms.
Tumor Identification → A supervised ML model to identify malignant tumors from the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database.
## FELLOWSHIPS
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellow → American Society for Microbiology | 2015 - 2016
## EDUCATION
M.S., Computer Science → University of Texas at Austin, TX | 2020 – Current
B.A., Biological Sciences and Psychology → Wellesley College, MA | 2012 - 2016