Sylvia runs People Operations at Octant and is responsible for driving processes that make for a healthy and high-performing team. Prior to joining Octant, Sylvia was the first HR hire at Invitae and led the People team through the organization's rapid growth, developing areas like compensation, benefits, employee experience, people analytics, learning and development, talent acquisition, and M&A diligence and integration. She also ran HR at Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus where she supported engineering faculty as well as researchers and engineers at NASA Ames. Sylvia has a B.S. in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from University of California, Davis with concentrations in Strategy and Organizational Behavior.

In her spare time, she cooks, listens to jazz, and plays ukulele for her twin toddler boys.