Ka Guh
Software Engineer III at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKa Guh is a Software Engineer III based in Seattle with 11 years of engineering experience and 7+ years building enterprise software, currently designing and implementing ML infrastructure at Google. Comfortable across C#, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Python, React, ASP.NET, Docker and PyTorch, Ka blends backend systems and ML tooling with frontend UX improvements. Past roles include critical infrastructure and orchestration work at Amazon and Harmonic—cutting Java build times in half and delivering containerized, multi-node deployments. A hands-on open-source contributor to popular VS Code projects like VSpaceCode and edamagit, Ka focuses on developer UX improvements such as command sequencing, transient menus, and graph visualization. Known for mentoring interns and driving pragmatic migrations (e.g., DNP3 to Web API), Ka brings a detail-oriented, systems-minded approach to turning complex requirements into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, 3.64, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, 3.64 at University of WashingtonAssociate of Science (AS), Pre-Engineering, 3.54, Associate of Science (AS), Pre-Engineering, 3.54 at Pierce College at Fort SteilacoomPre-Engineering, 4.0, Pre-Engineering, 4.0 at Tacoma Community College
Chinese
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Github Skills (21)
git10
javascript10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
keybindings10
apache9
spacemacs9
django-rest-framework9
vim8
configuration-file8
configuration-management8
configurations8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Spacemacs like keybindings for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 305 commits, 116 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ka primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a VS Code extension that provides Spacemacs-like keybindings. Their work involved refactoring and cleaning up import statements. They fixed a critical issue regarding the Vim command and added the functionality to run multiple commands in series. The user also made improvements to the menu and path commands by adding a transient menu and updated the configurations.
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kahole/edamagit
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Magit for VSCode
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 21 PRs, 52 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ka primarily contributed to the development of the VSCode extension, `edamagit`. Their work involved enhancing the user interface and user experience of the extension, by modifying menu options, commit message handling and incorporating features like graph visualization in the logging system. They also focused on improving the extension's functionality by incorporating features like copy section value, and copy buffer revision features, fixing bugs related to remote environments, and optimizing the user interface. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the functionality and usability of the extension.
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