Catherine Cai
Systems Platform Engineer
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolCatherine Cai is a Systems Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, specializing in Go, the Rails stack, and Kubernetes. She has led platform teams at Shopify and Fair.com, where she progressed from hands-on SRE work to Director of Platform Engineering and led an acquisition integration as interim technical lead. Catherine has a strong track record automating infrastructure with Terraform and Kops, open-sourcing multi-cluster Kubernetes tooling and a gRPC curl utility, and contributing to AWS-mocking tests in the moto project. Based in Los Angeles, she blends operational rigor—her Fair infrastructure sustained only one major outage in three years—with developer-focused platform design. Unusually for a systems engineer, she brings storytelling and production-stage management experience from USC and early career writing, which informs clear documentation and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Narrative Studies, BA, Narrative Studies at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Systems, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Systems, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Charter Oak High School
Spanish, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
ec10
boto10
python10
testing10
amazon-ec210
aws10
mocking10
activerecord6
rake6
routes6
jruby6
ruby-on-rails6
rspec6
jquery6
ruby6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Catherine primarily contributed to the backend of the project by implementing and testing VPC classic link functionality. Their work involved adding tests to verify the behavior of classic link operations and modifying backend responses to align with the updated features. The contributions suggest a focus on ensuring the correct implementation and functionality of AWS service mocking, specifically related to EC2 VPC features.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
wearefair/gurl
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
A tool for cURLing gRPC services.
Contributions:28 commits, 8 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 7 months
golangprotobufgrpc-servicesgrpccurling
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