Joan Smith
Principal Software Engineer at Elvity.ai
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoan Smith is a Principal Software Engineer based in Palo Alto with 12 years of experience building usable, supportable, and scalable infrastructure at Google and prior roles at Twitter, Oracle, and Apple. She has progressed through senior SRE and staff engineering roles into principal-level architecture and leadership, driving data-driven decisions and agile team effectiveness across finance, databases, and platform teams. Joan blends hands-on systems engineering with startup experience as a co-founder and advisor, bringing product-minded pragmatism to infrastructure problems. Her background in physics from MIT and bioinformatics consulting hints at a strong analytical approach and comfort with interdisciplinary, research-adjacent projects.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (34)
proportional9
computational-biology8
gtk8
medicine8
qt8
matplotlib7
bioinformatics7
survival-analysis7
python7
data-visualization6
react6
datasets6
visualization6
survival6
data-science6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joan-smith/dot-files
Jan 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 5 months
dotbashdot-filesdotfilesshell
joan-smith/microarray-proportional-hazards
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:50 PRs, 42 pushes, 52 branches in 1 year 8 months
proportionalpythonhazardcalculations
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