Ashley Bruce

Veeva Systems · San Francisco, CA

• Engineered distributed sync infrastructure serving hundreds of thousands of records, supporting both full-refresh and incremental data synchronization between cloud and offline-capable client devices.
• Designed and implemented processing logic for internal upload pipelines to handle specialized record types — including net-new API endpoints for novel upload flows — defining API contracts across multiple product teams and ensuring correctness at scale.
• Contributed to a large-scale platform migration from a Salesforce-based legacy system to an internal native platform, rewriting and validating sync services to preserve data integrity across the transition.
• Built reactive, asynchronous backend services in Java within a distributed systems environment; with exposure to Kafka and Spark-based messaging and data processing, Hazelcast-backed state management, and observability tooling via Prometheus and Jaeger.
• Served as a cross-functional collaborator between the sync team and several product teams, translating product requirements into backend data contracts and system behavior.

Bionic Vision Lab · UCSB

• Developed a greedy optimization framework in Python using dictionary learning and evolutionary algorithms to maximize visual subfield coverage in epiretinal prostheses; work accepted and published at MICCAI 2022.

Dynamic Networks: Analysis and Modeling Lab · UCSB

• Contributed to ongoing research modeling signed time-series graph data to represent group dynamics, developing graph-based representations of interpersonal interactions using deep learning techniques.
• Applied deep learning to molecular data to learn rich embeddings, gaining hands-on experience and building ML pipelines using Pandas and NumPy.

Cal Poly, SLO · UCSB

• Designed and executed data science projects that analyzed real-world datasets to apply topics in machine learning, statistics, and data visualization.
• Led discussion sections, hosted office hours, and conducted workshops on topics in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science.
• Created and delivered project, lecture, and course materials to students.