olivia wong

san francisco

RESUME

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EXPERIENCE
WAABI
Software Engineer · San Francisco, CA
  • Built 3D visualizer for autonomous vehicle data (Rust, wgpu): MIT Tech Review | Bloomberg | Waabi
  • Owned backseat and demo visualization used in external demos
  • Developed tooling for visualizing and playing spatial audio from vehicle mics; designed in-vehicle sound UX
  • Prototyped simulation construction via voice using LLM (Gemini, Web Speech)
  • Mentored interns, wrote design docs, owned projects including features for map editor (PostGIS, Mapbox)
UC SANTA CRUZ GENOMICS INSTITUTE
Research Assistant · Santa Cruz, CA
  • Implemented validation, testing, redesigned interface for genomics data visualizer published in Bioinformatics
EMBARK TRUCKS
Software Engineer Intern, Data Visualization · San Francisco, CA
  • Built 3D visualization suite for autonomous trucks
  • Optimized real-time rendering performance from 18fps to 60fps
  • Visualizer featured in company demos, YouTube, and Forbes; demoed to US Secretary of Transportation
NEW RELIC
Software Engineer Intern · San Francisco, CA
  • Built ML models for server health prediction (Python, Pandas, Keras)
  • Built high throughput data simulator for data analytics launch
  • Presented to ML group on using autoencoders for anomaly detection in system data
UDEMY
Software Engineer Intern · San Francisco, CA
  • Developed linear model from past data to optimize ad spend, improving ROI by 10%
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
B.A. Computer Science and Music, Baskin School of Engineering · GPA: 3.76
  • President of UCSC Rocket Team — led 20+ students in NASA Student Launch Initiative
  • Transit Announcement Voice: Santa Cruz Metro Center (2020)
SKILLS
LANGUAGES
Python, SQL, Rust, TypeScript, Go
DATA
PostgreSQL, PostGIS, data visualization, data science, Pandas
MAPS
Mapbox, geospatial data, map tooling
AI
LLM integration, ML modeling, prompt engineering
GRAPHICS
WebGL, WebGPU, wgpu, shaders (WGSL, GLSL) - scroll down