About

Anna Philips is a highly skilled software engineer with over 4 years of experience in the field. She holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas, where she specialized in developing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models for categorizing public transit tweets in NYC. Her thesis project, which was part of a larger project, involved collecting tweets around New York and developing a CNN model that classifies and categorizes sentences automatically into a transit performance category. Anna is proficient in several programming languages, including Python, Java, Javascript, and Go. She also has experience working with various databases, such as Couchbase, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, and is skilled in using Git, Docker, Git CI, and Ansible. Anna's past experiences include working as a Software Engineer at Matmacorp and a Research Assistant at the University of Texas at Arlington. At the University of Texas, Anna was part of a team of six that built a CNN model to categorize public transit tweets in NYC, ultimately contributing to the development of a web application in collaboration with two universities. She also implemented MKCNN (Multi-kernel Convolution Neural Network) with Tensorflow to categorize public transit tweets from NYC, which reduced the number of parameters to learn in kernel from n^2 to 2n. Her paper on the project was accepted in the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 99th Annual Meeting. Currently, Anna works as a Software Engineer at Amazon, where she continues to hone her skills in software engineering and develop innovative solutions. She was also selected to be a part of the Google Summer of Code program 2018 with Fedora and worked with the CommOps team remotely to move, integrate, and deploy an open-source Django web application to Fedora's infrastructure. Anna's technical skills, including her expertise in Python, Ansible, CNN, Neural Networks, Web, Docker, Javascript, MySQL, infra, Django, Java, and Tensorflow, make her a valuable asset to any team. She is a dedicated and hardworking individual who is constantly seeking to improve her skills and knowledge in the field of software engineering.