Summary
Natalie Swan is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with 9 years of experience building ML-driven systems, data engineering pipelines, and developer tooling at companies including Reddit and Foursquare. She moved from ads optimization and modeling into developer experience and development environment work at Reddit, blending production ML insight with infrastructure and DX improvements. Her background includes building a large-scale computer-vision service (CopyCatcher) that filtered nearly 600GB of image data using Spark, Redis, and S3, and hands-on work improving multisensor place-prediction systems. Trained in both Computer Science and Music Technology, she brings a rare combination of analytical rigor and domain creativity—evident in audio plugin and physical modeling projects. Comfortable across Python, Spark, cloud services, and C++ audio tooling, she focuses on pragmatic, production-ready solutions that scale.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at New York University
Diploma Harp Music Studies, Diploma Harp Music Studies at Children’s School of Music #2
English, Russian, Ukrainian, French