Kaia Young
Engineering Manager, BQuant Developer And Content Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaia Young is an engineering manager at Bloomberg with nine years of software and leadership experience, currently heading teams that build BQuant, Bloomberg’s Python-based analytics and content platform. She progressed from software engineer to team lead and now manages developer and content platform efforts, blending hands-on coding sensibilities with product-minded team leadership. Kaia contributes to open-source front-end tooling—most notably adding axis tick rotation and improved boxplot selection features to the popular Jupyter plotting library bqplot—showing attention to UX details in data visualization. Based in San Francisco, she pairs a practical engineering background from Hackbright Academy with earlier IT and case-management experience, which informs her collaborative, user-focused approach to platform development. Her work bridges data science tooling and scalable internal platforms, with a knack for shipping polish in interactive visualization components.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Hackbright Academy
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
visualization10
d3js10
bqplot10
visualizations10
jupyter9
ipython9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bqplot/bqplot
May 2018 - Apr 2020
Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter notebooks
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 16 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Kaia primarily contributed to the front-end component of the bqplot library, focusing on axis and boxplot features. They added a `tick_rotate` parameter to the Axis component, which allowed for rotation of axis tick labels. Further improvements included setting number of axis ticks and addressing a transform issue. Other changes involved refactoring selections in the Boxplot component and revising outlier selection methods.
visualizationpythonjupyter-notebookjupyterlabipywidgets
kaiayoung/bqplot
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
pythonjupyterlab-extensionjupyter-notebookjupyterlabipywidgets
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