Christine Shen
Product Engineer at Kaveat
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristine Shen is a product-focused engineer and CTO-level leader with nine years of experience building backend systems, ML-informed products, and developer tools from startups to enterprise teams. Based in New York, she currently splits her time between Astronomer’s Office of the CTO and leading technology at Kaveat, applying practical ML approaches to make opaque systems more transparent and actionable. Her background spans Java Spring Boot and cloud platforms at Capital One to real-time tooling and instrumentation (e.g., scalable REST APIs, Slack-integrated telemetry) and contributions to open-source projects like Hygieia where she improved core data models, queries, and reporting formats. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and strategic product decisions, she blends production-grade backend expertise with a user-centered drive to equip people to understand and improve complex systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Leland High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Cornell UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Cornell Tech
English, French
Github Skills (23)
ldap10
authentication10
user-authentication10
java10
javas10
api10
hygieia10
spring-boot10
unit-testing9
mongodb-database9
apidoc9
mongodb9
logging9
xml9
c-library8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hygieia/hygieia-core
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
Core components for Hygieia (model, repositories, utilities etc)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Christine primarily focused on enhancing the core components of the Hygieia project. Their work included adding and modifying database query methods related to binary artifacts, along with updates to the `BinaryArtifact` model to accommodate new fields. They remediated dependency vulnerabilities and updated project dependencies. The user also introduced a new XML report format and related transformations, as well as additional queries for both the build and collector item repositories.
repositorieshygieiahygieia-corecore-components
cschristine/UI
Apr 2020 - May 2020
[WIP] - New UI project for Hygieia Dashboards built on Angular 8
Contributions:74 pushes in 1 month
angular-8wipdashboardsui-projecthygieia
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