Sunnia Y. Email & Phone Number

United States

Short Hills, New Jersey, US

South San Francisco, CA, US

• Built and maintained web automation tools and machine learning tools for Revenue Cycle Management for hospital clients. Worked with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, Puppeteer.
• Built out an API for verification of prior authorization status and maintained an API for hospital claim status, ensuring that healthcare insurers paid their contracted share of hospital costs. Worked with Python and.
• Built out, maintained, and standardized metrics and alarms across the tech org, using Grafana, Kibana, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, and YAML templates.
• Led a Women in Tech affinity group of 10-15 employees. Organized lunch tech talks across 4 US timezones. Mentored junior software engineers on career paths, growing one’s technical skills, and passing AWS certification.

Newark, NJ, US

• Designed, built, and launched the Audible shopping notifications on Alexa from start to finish. Directed a team of 4 engineers and collaborated with multiple teams & stakeholders over 9 months. Delivered 5.2M.
• Designed the Audible on Alexa membership subscription feature across 7 global marketplaces. Led a team of 5 engineers to deliver personalized UX based on customer segmentation, processing 70K requests/day on average.
• Led the audit and migration of AWS resources from one AWS account to another. Led a team of 6 engineers and coordinated with 3 stakeholder teams to implement cost savings across DynamoDB resources, encrypt Kinesis.
• Single-handedly built a new, highly-visible purchasing feature from end-to-end over the course of 1 week as a side project, leading to over 7K requests/day and a 240% increase in listening consumption in the first 6.
• Worked primarily with Java, Git, Alexa SDK, and AWS.
• Addressed outages, security risks, and customer issues as part of an on-call rotation (site reliability engineer role), for one out of every six weeks.

Newark, NJ, US

• Launched an Audible promotional feature on the iOS Kindle app, in Objective- C. Created technical documentation to ensure feature parity between the iOS, Android, and Web features.
• Shipped multiple, incremental releases of the Audible app on Amazon’s Fire Devices. Worked extensively in the Android SDK, with Java and Kotlin.
• Technical mentor for 2018 summer intern. Met weekly to set project milestones and provide technical guidance on an Android project in Java.

Wellesley, MA, US

• Held weekly drop-in hours where I helped algorithms students review key concepts and natural science students debug Matlab and Python code.
• Graded algorithms students’ homework assignments and led algorithms review sessions before exams.

Newark, NJ, US

• Built a feature for the Audible app on Amazon’s Fire Tablet and Fire TV. Wrote and tested Java code on FireOS (a modified Android OS).
• Designed the UX and tech docs for the project. Worked with a 7-person local team and led communications with a remote team.
• Won Honorable Mention (and favorite idea) in a company-wide intern hackathon/business pitch, judged by a group of Audible’s C-level executives.

Wellesley, MA, US

• Profiled multithreaded programs with Prof. Benjamin Wood in order to increase the performance of current multithreaded debugging tools.
• Built Java tools that ran with the program monitor RoadRunner; wrote Python scripts to automate program tests on Linux machines and extract relevant metadata into CSVs, histograms, and other graphs with the plot.ly.

Wellesley, MA, US

Created an interactive timeline with Prof. Eni Mustafaraj summarizing 46+ years of computing history at Wellesley College, for the CS Department's 32nd anniversary event, at https://cs.wellesley.edu/timeline

Wellesley, MA, US

• Coordinated the orientation event’s social media communications; addressed incoming students’ questions and concerns.
• Handled digital forms and applications for the third-party platform Guidebook.
• Created videos highlighting orientation week with Google Picasa tool.
• Acted as student leader during orientation: guided students to locations on campus, addressed parents’ concerns, and helped set up technical equipment.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Designed a recommendation algorithm with Prof. Jason Hong for PrivacyGrade.org, a website that evaluates the privacy settings of Android apps.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Study Abroad, Linguistics

Study Abroad, Geopolitics

Cross-Registered, Computer Science

Cross-Registered, Engineering