Alya Abbott

Career path.

1. Anthropic

   Member of Technical Staff

   May 2026 - Present
2. The Zulip Open Source Project

   Board Member

   May 2026 - Present
3. Kandra Labs, Inc. (creators of Zulip)

   COO

   Sep 2023 - May 2026
4. Kandra Labs, Inc. (creators of Zulip)

   Head of Product

   Mar 2021 - Sep 2023
5. Lyft

   Head of Telematics Research Science

   Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
6. Upwork

   Director of Data Science

   Feb 2017 - Aug 2018
7. Upwork

   Senior Data Scientist

   May 2015 - Jan 2017
8. Elance-oDesk

   Data Scientist

   Oct 2014 - May 2015
9. MIT Lincoln Laboratory

   Technical Staff

   Oct 2011 - Apr 2014
10. Google

    Software Engineering Intern

    Jun 2007 - Aug 2007
11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

    Undergraduate Researcher

    Feb 2006 - May 2006