Catherine Khuu
Senior Software Engineer at Stash
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCatherine K is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience delivering scalable web applications and developer tooling. A philosopher-turned-developer and active community advocate, she blends rigorous problem-solving with a mission to create social impact and mentoring-focused culture. At Stash, she has progressed to Senior Software Engineer (2021–present) and previously contributed across Platform and Operations Tools, including standardizing CI/CD, migrating applications to a private PCI-compliant space, and building real-time observability with Segment, AWS Kinesis, and Elasticsearch. Her Plated tenure featured internal tooling and logistics improvements, with 96% accuracy in detecting suspected fraudulent user activity and a move from Redis to Kafka to improve messaging architecture; she also led internal hackathons and built an internal component library with MaterialUI. Outside of engineering, she has organized mentorship programs and community events (ScriptEd sponsorships, hackathons, and the Plated Run Club), demonstrating leadership and a collaborative approach to technology and social impact.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
City High/Middle SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Philosophy at Bryn Mawr CollegeDev BootcampCollege of Liberal and Professional Studies, College of Liberal and Professional Studies at University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (32)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
rep5
vote4
stack-overflow4
herokuapp4
nan3
javascript3
zipcode3
heroku-api3
react-rails2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cat-khuu/phase-0-tracks
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:64 PRs, 41 pushes, 38 branches in 1 month
catkhuu/Run2Gether
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:103 commits, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 month
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