Bertie Ancona

Bertie Ancona has a diverse range of work experience in the field of software engineering. They are currently a Senior Software Engineer at Duolingo, where they started in August 2022. Prior to this role, they served as a Software Engineer II at Duolingo from March 2021 to August 2022, and as a Software Engineer I from November 2019 to March 2021.

In 2019, Bertie worked as a Summer Computer Science Researcher at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where they collaborated with Professor Keren Censor-Hillel on research in theoretical computer science. They focused on algorithms and lower bounds for graph diameter, radius, and eccentricities in the distributed CONGEST model.

Before that, Bertie gained teaching experience as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They worked as a TA for the Intro to Theory of Computation (6.840) course in the fall semester and as a TA for the Intro to Algorithms (6.006) course in the spring semester. They also worked as an Undergraduate Researcher under Professor Virginia Vassilevska Williams, focusing on lower bounds for dynamic graph radius and diameter.

Bertie gained industry experience through internships at Pocket Gems in 2017 and Microsoft in 2016, where they worked as a Software Engineer Intern.

In 2013, Bertie started their career as a Software Engineering Intern at Gazelle. They developed a web application with a Java backend for user device identification and utilized shipment records for predicting future shipment sizes. They also modified a software tool to output data in XML format.

Overall, Bertie Ancona has demonstrated a strong background in software engineering and research, combining academic and industry experience in their career.

Bertie Ancona pursued a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bertie attended the institution from 2014 to 2018. After completing their undergraduate studies, Bertie continued their education at the same university and obtained a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Computer Science in 2019.