Allyson Pemberton is a full-stack Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience, having worked for start-up, scale-up and large enterprise businesses. Allyson is currently working for Synthesia, the leader in AI video generation. She works on the Avatar & Voices team, ensuring the Synthesia product has world-class AI human avatars available for use - including Avatar clones of yourself! 

Prior to Synthesia, Allyson worked as a Tech Lead/Manager at Unlikely AI, where she helped build a neuro-symbolic AI platform and scale the company from 20 to 60 people. Before that, Allyson worked at Google for 7 years across locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. At Google, she contributed to large established projects such as Google Video Ads and Google Play Console. She also worked on greenfield projects at Google including a 6 month Google.org project creating Global Health, which tracks line-list level, epidemiological data during disease outbreaks, most notably for Covid-19. She also worked in Area 120, Google's internal start-up incubator, helping enterprises measure and reduce their carbon footprint.