Sophie Groenwold
Software Engineer • Los Angeles
I'm a software engineer at Oracle working on the Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S). I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in History from UC Santa Barbara.
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In my free time, I love to travel, read whatever I can get my hands on, and spend time with my two cats.
Work
Oracle
I'm a software engineer at Oracle, working on the Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) platform.
As a Senior Data Systems Engineer, I develop database infrastructure for backup, recovery, and cloning functionality for pluggable databases.
I work in C and PL/SQL.
Much of my work focuses on making database functionality work reliably across regions, including implementing systems for
persisting database metadata in cloud object storage and exposing database information through cross-tenancy APIs. I collaborate closely with
engineers and technical leaders to deliver new features, and own several areas of database clone functionality.
Software engineering intern: I designed and implemented an API endpoint for internal audit information in the Ads org, while helping my team adopt an API- and GraphQL-first architecture.
UCSB Natural Language Processing Group
NLP researcher: I conducted work in computational social science under Professor William Wang, studying linguistic diversity and societal bias in natural language generation. Our work was published at EMNLP 2020 and LREC 2022.
Guardian Life Insurance
Software engineering intern: I implemented a SQL-based user provisioning infrastructure.
Extras
Publications
- Towards Understanding Gender-Seniority Compound Bias in Natural Language Generation. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2022. [paper]
- Investigating African-American Vernacular English in Transformer-Based Text Generation. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2020. [paper]
Awards & Honors
- UCSB Computer Science Student of the Year, 2022
- UC Regent's Scholar, 2018 - 2022
- Honors College of Engineering, 2018 - 2022
- UCSB Computer Science Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, 2021