Bridging industry experience and academic research - AI Researcher | Engineer

About Me

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My professional journey spans both industry and academia. With over 10 years as a Full Stack Software Engineer, I have architected and implemented cloud-based solutions while developing deep expertise in JavaScript and team leadership. Throughout my career, I've led cross-functional teams, mentored engineers at all levels, and driven technical excellence across multiple organizations.

This hybrid career path—combining hands-on engineering with strong leadership—uniquely positions me to bridge practical engineering excellence with academic research and innovation.

Research Interests

AI for Code

Leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance software development, improve code quality, and automate engineering tasks—informed by a decade of hands-on software engineering experience.

Natural Language Processing

Exploring advanced NLP techniques to bridge human language understanding and computational systems, with applications to real-world engineering and information processing challenges.

AI for Law

Investigating the intersection of artificial intelligence and legal systems, including applications for legal document analysis, automation, and the ethical implications of AI in the legal domain.

Publications

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Presentations

Navajo Nation Data Center Symposium — Building Solidarity and Partnership for Change

Jan 2026

Shiprock, NM

  • Delivered a featured address to 30+ Navajo Nation leaders on emerging data industry trends and their strategic implications for tribal governance
  • Advised senior stakeholders, including leaders from the Department of Diné Education, on pragmatic pathways for advancing data education and infrastructure
  • Championed data sovereignty and community-centered data stewardship as pillars for long-term institutional strength
  • Provided hands-on coaching to non-technical leaders to help translate data strategy into actionable community initiatives

Navajo Nation Economic Summit – Bridging Tech and Tradition

Aug 2024

Albuquerque, NM

  • Delivered a keynote as one of three invited keynote speakers to an audience of 150+ attendees.
  • Connected and articulated the relationships of data, AI, and Navajo tradition.
  • Collaborated for several months in advance with executives from the primary sponsor, Diné Development Corporation, to ensure the scientific and cultural relevance of topics.
  • Advocated for Market-Creating Innovations as defined in the Prosperity Paradox theory developed by the Christensen Institute.

Community Engagement

Awards & Recognition

NSF CSGrad4US Fellow

Computing Research Association

Issued Aug 2025

Selected as an NSF CSGrad4US Fellow, a nationally competitive program supporting research careers in computing. ID: 34026358673769.

Industry Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Capital One bank

Jul 2024 – Aug 2025

  • Served as principal engineer for a team of 9, mentoring engineers through individualized training.
  • Led cross-functional security efforts, triaging JavaScript/TypeScript vulnerabilities and training 30+ engineers.
  • Defined and monitored critical SLOs using New Relic, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana to improve system reliability.
  • Optimized Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Kubernetes autoscaling, improving platform performance by 100%.
  • Built event-driven pipelines using Snowflake, Kafka Streams, S3, SQS, TypeScript, Docker, and PostgreSQL.

Senior Software Engineer

BYU Broadcasting

May 2021 – Jul 2024

  • Served as technical lead for BYUtv’s AWS cloud infrastructure across multiple engineering teams.
  • Adopted and evaluated AWS technologies including Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Aurora, EventBridge, and SQS.
  • Mentored senior engineers and supervised teams of 2–4 entry-level developers.
  • Designed scalable microservices and event-driven architectures supporting millions of users.
  • Migrated seven Kubernetes environments to ECS using AWS CDK for TypeScript.

Software Developer

Ancestry.com

Aug 2019 – May 2021

  • Implemented lightweight image-editing applications using ReactJS, JavaScript, S3, and AWS CDK.
  • Reduced deployment times from 1–2 days to 5 minutes using CI/CD automation.
  • Built hybrid cloud ingestion pipelines for terabytes of image data using Java and JavaScript.
  • Designed and deployed Dockerized services on AWS ECS (Fargate/EC2).
  • Implemented RDS-backed MySQL and PostgreSQL solutions and CloudFormation infrastructure.

Senior Software Engineer

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Feb 2019 – Jul 2019

  • Developed full-stack applications using Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, and ReactJS.
  • Mentored mid-level, junior, and intern engineers, improving engineering proficiency.
  • Rewrote legacy applications using ReactJS, NextJS, Webpack, and Redux.
  • Built web services using Java Spring and MarkLogic Server.

Associate Software Developer

Ancestry.com

Jun 2017 – Feb 2019

  • Developed scalable cloud applications using Java, JavaScript, and AWS services.
  • Automated Newspapers.com ingestion processes using ReactJS and Java.
  • Migrated image data from on-premises to AWS, implementing AWS CDK and CloudFormation templates.

Student Software Engineer

BYU Family History Technology Lab

Oct 2016 – Mar 2017

  • Maintained three full-stack web applications using React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Collaborated with FamilySearch on new project design initiatives.

Student Software Engineer

BYU Broadcasting

Apr 2015 – Jun 2015

  • Maintained byutv.org, byuradio.org, and byutvi.org using JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Translated visual concept art into production-ready HTML/CSS.
  • Participated in agile-driven collaborative engineering workflows.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Brigham Young University

Aug 2025 – Apr 2030 (expected)

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

University of Utah

2018 – 2021

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Brigham Young University

2012 – 2017

Associate of Science (A.S.), University Studies

Utah Valley University

2010 – 2012

Contact

Email: naataaniitsosie@gmail.com

Phone: 801 709 4830