Josie Yaconelli
Founding Engineer at Worktrace AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosie Yaconelli is a founding engineer with 11 years of experience building front-end products and machine learning systems, currently leading engineering at Worktrace AI out of the San Francisco Bay Area. She combines a strong academic background in computer science and mathematics (University of Oregon; Master’s work at University College Dublin) with hands-on startup experience shipping React and Electron apps and audio-focused ML. Previously a founding front-end engineer at Shades and a software engineer at Roblox, she bridges user-facing interfaces and research-driven ML, especially in computational musicology and ethical ML. Her early work includes deep learning for automatic key detection and research in model-based reinforcement learning and primate visual representation, reflecting a habit of translating research prototypes into production features. Colleagues describe her as an engineer who pairs musical insight with rigorous ML practice to solve novel product problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of OregonWW CLCAshland High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University College DublinTransatlantic Student Science Exchange Program (TASSEP) Mathematics and Computer Science, Transatlantic Student Science Exchange Program (TASSEP) Mathematics and Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
Github Skills (38)
auth10
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
react-hooks10
crashlytics10
storage10
react-native-app10
push-notifications10
android10
remote-config10
firestore10
realtime-database10
firebase10
react10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jyaconelli/crazyflie_ros-pwm-control
Jul 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
jyaconelli/found-poems
Apr 2023 - Dec 2025
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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