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🎓 I'm Katherine, a software engineer focused on distributed systems, backend infrastructure, and high-performance data pipelines.
I enjoy building systems that are scalable, reliable, and production-ready.
- PayPal – JunoDB (Distributed Caching, 350B+ daily requests)
Executed tech refresh across 3+ pools with 100GB+ data migration achieving zero downtime; managed GKE-based storage platform reducing latency from 2s to <10ms; maintained Java/Spring client library and designed a distributed counter feature for linear write throughput scaling. - Tesla (Factory Software Team)
Migrated a legacy .NET ETL system to Golang & React, rebuilding backend as a task scheduler extracting data from 200+ configured sources and publishing to Kafka topics. - SciFeCap (Quant Trading)
Built a WebSocket-based real-time data pipeline using the Strategy Design Pattern, reducing database load by 40% while preserving trading-relevant signals.
🔗 Explore my Portfolio for more details on my projects and contributions.
Hands-on experience with Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, and SQL. I work extensively with Spring, React.js, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Elasticsearch, and AWS/GCP. My focus is on distributed systems, backend infrastructure, and building scalable production systems.
I love A Cappella🎵, rock climbing 🧗, cooking 🍳, traveling & the outdoors ⛰️, and spending time with cats 🐈.
🌊 "To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life."
- 🥇 2nd Place @ MCIT Hackathon 2024
- 🏆 Best Beginner Hack @ FemmeHack 2024
Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or check out my GitHub.
Check out my pinned repos for the projects I build. (list continuously updating)
- FindFlora: A Java-based recommendation engine using QuadTree, BFS, t-SNE, and attribute-indexed search for personalized flower recommendations.
- Ufogram: An Instagram Full-Stack Clone built with React and Node.js.
- IMDB Full-Stack Clone: A comprehensive IMDB clone with advanced search and optimized MySQL performance.
- Task2Calendar: A Chrome Extension to clip assignment tasks from web pages directly to your calendar.
- TimeToGoal: An iOS app combining short-term task planning and long-term goal tracking.
- Invaders: A terminal arcade game developed with Rust.
- Django Online Course App: An online course application developed using Django.
