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Catherine Kim

New York,NY

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Advertising
07.2023 - Current
  • Spearheaded the design and implementation of advanced ad targeting solutions on high-traffic, multi-service software systems, ensuring seamless cross-team integration.
  • Conducted in-depth system analyses to identify risks and optimization opportunities, defining both short-term fixes and long-term strategic improvements.
  • Designed automated testing frameworks to validate inter-service compatibility and safeguard production operations.
  • Collaborated with data scientists to build a unified data access solution, streamlining analytics and enabling efficient cross-team data sharing across advertising organizations.
  • Led PII data compliance initiatives, developing and implementing automated testing and deployment mechanisms to enhance monitoring and ensure timely updates for data pseudonymization.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Service
04.2022 - 07.2023
  • Worked closely with engineers and leadership to ensure a successful General Availability launch of AWS IoT RoboRunner, managing the scoping and implementation of software components to meet internal company standards while proactively identifying and addressing gaps.
  • Led the end-to-end scoping, planning, and implementation of product integrations with other AWS services, enhancing customer experience and expanding product capabilities.
  • Mentored summer interns and new-grad engineers, providing guidance to help them become efficient, independent contributors to the team.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Robotics
03.2020 - 04.2022
  • Designed, implemented, tested, and deployed a scalable Native AWS backend service to promptly ingest and propagate robotic equipment data from multiple sources to enable the team to migrate off responsibility from a legacy backend service, to ultimately support prompt data rendering on an application used by all Fulfillment center floors
  • Designed and generically built alarm and dashboard systems, via code, to enable explicit, easy monitoring of service operation details
  • Led end-to-end engineering support for product feature projects, collaborating with cross-functional engineering and science teams to define design approaches, establish ownership, and drive timely implementation and release of reliable features.
  • Mentored summer interns and new-grad engineers, enhancing their technical and problem-solving skills to empower them as independent contributors.

Research Assistant

Vanderbilt Neuroimaging & Brain Dynamic Lab
11.2019 - 03.2020
  • Cleaned and scaled fMRI data collected from Human Connectome Project to generate individual functional connectivity cortex, thalamus, and cortical-thalamic matrices for analysis in Python
  • Applied various regularization models (e.g Ridge, lasso, elastic net, K-nearest) to capture and determine the predictability of cortex, thalamus, and cortical-thalamic functional connectivity regarding individual cognitive scores such as cognitive processing speed

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics, English, Computer Science, Philosophy

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
12.2019

Timeline

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Advertising
07.2023 - Current

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Service
04.2022 - 07.2023

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Robotics
03.2020 - 04.2022

Research Assistant

Vanderbilt Neuroimaging & Brain Dynamic Lab
11.2019 - 03.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics, English, Computer Science, Philosophy

Vanderbilt University

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