Ellen Dai
Senior Software Engineer at Gravity
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEllen Dai is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building user-centric, safety-minded products that connect people to the real world. An ex-Googler now at Gravity, she helped scale LLM-backed Assistant features and led a major UI overhaul for Assistant Auto that improved engagement for millions of weekly users. She combines deep Android UI expertise with pragmatic platform thinking—centralizing tokens, reducing tech debt, and championing developer ergonomics to make complex features easier to ship. Ellen has a proven track record of shipping measurable product improvements (e.g., +13% daily users, +2% queries, −14% cancellations) while mentoring teams and interns. Her background spans high-scale consumer products at Google and internships at Microsoft and Facebook, giving her broad cross-platform experience from backend integrations to polished native interfaces. Colleagues value her for translating ambitious AI capabilities into safe, intuitive experiences for real-world contexts.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisGithub contributions (5)
ellenmdai/banana-split
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
ellenmdai/ellenmdai.github.io
Jun 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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