Catlyn Kong
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCatlyn Kong is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with six years of experience building reliable real-time data systems. She has driven streaming infrastructure and python-based stream processing adoption (Apache Beam, PyFlink) at Yelp and now contributes to large-scale engineering efforts at Airbnb. Her background in signal processing and optics (MS University of Michigan, BS Sun Yat-Sen) informs a methodical approach to systems design and performance optimization. She pairs hands-on engineering with technical leadership experience from a Technical Lead role, shipping production-ready features that simplify developer workflows. Early work includes automating complex code generation and GUIs to compress engineering cycles from weeks to hours, highlighting a talent for turning repetitive tasks into scalable tools. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends research-caliber rigor with production-first delivery.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Signal Processing & Machine Learning, 3.9/4.0, Master’s Degree, Signal Processing & Machine Learning, 3.9/4.0 at University of MichiganBachelor's degree, Optics and Optical Engineering, 3.82/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Optics and Optical Engineering, 3.82/4.0 at Sun Yat-Sen University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (15)
yelp10
sensu9
chronos8
docker8
k8s7
java7
infrastructure7
kubernetes6
paas6
golang5
distributed-systems4
microservices4
cloud-native4
marathon3
mesos2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
Yelp/paasta
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
An open, distributed platform as a service
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
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