Summary
Isabella J is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience and a 9-year track record as a full‑stack generalist who blends product intuition with deep engineering across web, mobile, and experimental media. Currently at Slack focusing on AI and search, she has previously led cross-organizational efforts in Google Assistant NLP and prototyped LLM‑powered language-learning experiences and Unity integrations. As an early engineer at a16z‑backed Things, Inc. she shipped game systems and voxel physics, and she brings a habit of rapid prototyping from projects spanning real‑time chat, VR, and generative audio. A creative technologist by training—having studied math and CS at Reed and participated in SFPC’s Musical Web—she often sits at the intersection of interaction design and backend systems, building features that prioritize real user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) math-cs, Bachelor of Arts (BA) math-cs at Reed College
Riverdale Country School
English, French