Cat Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolCat Smith is a Senior Software Engineer based in Tokyo with a decade of embedded and systems software experience, currently leading application frameworks for Amazon Prime Air's autonomous delivery drones. She specializes in real-time system design, low-latency control loops, and performance debugging on Linux PREEMPT_RT and bare-metal platforms, with a proven record of reducing logging bandwidth by over 60% and eliminating difficult priority-inversion and livelock issues. Her background spans firmware to driver and application layers, including secure bootloaders, encrypted DFU, CAN-FD peripherals, and FreeRTOS task architectures accelerated with hardware security engines. At Amazon she prototyped SMT-based message scheduling and mentored interns to build heap-profiling tools that became production diagnostics, demonstrating a blend of formal methods and practical tooling. Authorized to work in Japan as a Highly Skilled Professional I(b), she also brings an uncommon dual life as a Les Mills fitness instructor, reflecting discipline and team leadership off the keyboard.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts and Science AcademyBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Physics at University of ChicagoProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
johnsoncm/cadmium
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:22 reviews, 72 commits, 32 PRs in 12 days
crsmith01/mvc-tech-blog
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 29 days
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