Mollie Anderson
Operations × Engineering × Design × AI
I'm an operations specialist and product builder based in Los Angeles, with a background that runs from the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the AI developer platform powering the world's most advanced models. After nearly a decade of executive support across major cultural institutions and high-growth tech, I completed a software engineering bootcamp and shipped several frontend and backend features in production at Weights & Biases.
I bring the visual instincts of years in the arts, the judgment and systems thinking of running an executive office, and the technical fluency to design and build what I imagine. Whether supporting a leadership team, designing a product, or shipping code, I care most about doing work with craft and making the people around me more effective. Lately I've been especially interested in how AI tools can transform the way all of this work gets done, and in my spare time I've been building apps end-to-end with Claude Code and Figma MCP.
Projects
Creature Books
AI-powered Next.js appCreature Books is an AI-powered book discovery and tracking app with a fully documented design system in Figma. The frontend is built in Next.js with TypeScript using Claude Code with Figma MCP, and includes a mood-based book recommendation feature on the Explore screen using the Claude API. W&B Weave is integrated for LLM observability, tracking every prompt and response through the discovery flow.
CurateSphere
Full-stack web appCurateSphere is a full-stack art curation app built on the PERN stack, integrating the Harvard Art Museums API to give users access to over 244,000 artworks. Users can create, edit, and share personal exhibitions with advanced filtering by medium, culture, period, and technique. Originally built it 2024, I recently redesigned the entire UI in Figma with a new design system and component library, and rebuilt the frontend with Figma MCP and Claude Code.
Experience
Software Engineer
Weights & Biases
Shipped ~100 PRs across frontend and backend using React, Go, and GraphQL. Built shared UI components from Figma designs and contributed to standardizing component usage across internal tools.
Senior EA to CEO/Co-Founder & CFO
Weights & Biases
Managed cross-functional alignment, executive communications, and organizational systems across a fully remote global team.
Executive Assistant to the Director
J. Paul Getty Trust
Supported the Director of one of the world's leading art institutions. Managed operational workflows, donor correspondence, and institutional events.
Assistant Administrator
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Coordinated projects and research for exhibitions; co-chaired museum-wide fundraising initiatives; managed collection of archival photographs; co-authored peer-reviewed publications.
Records Coordinator
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Managed logistics and project archive at art conservation center serving museums, historical societies, and private clients throughout the mid-Atlantic region.
Education
General Assembly
Software Engineering Bootcamp
New York, NY / Remote
University of Pennsylvania
BA with Honors in Philosophy · Minors in French & History
Philadelphia, PA
Publications
Research from my work co-chairing the Time-Based Media Working Group at the Met.
Lia Kramer, Alexandra Nichols, Mollie Anderson, Nora W. Kennedy, Glenn Wharton, Lorena Ramirez-Lopez. Conducting a Time-Based Media Conservation Assessment and Survey at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation. DOI: 10.1080/01971360.2020.1855866
Lia Kramer, Alexandra Nichols, Mollie Anderson, Nora W. Kennedy, Glenn Wharton, Lorena Ramirez-Lopez. “Institutional Assessments and Collection Surveys for Time-Based Media Conservation.” Conservation of Time-Based Media Art, edited by Deena Engel and Joanna Phillips, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 39–64. DOI: 10.4324/9781003034865