Summary
Kaley Chicoine is a software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable systems across distributed consensus, embedded/robotics, and web services, currently contributing at Coinbase from Bend, Oregon. She has a strong research background (MS, University of Oregon) that informed work on LLVM call graph analysis and secure, resource-constrained OS projects, and she’s co-author on an ACM paper. In industry roles she’s optimized core data structures and protocols—refactoring Merkle trees for searchable key/value stores and implementing L1 testnet reward collection with CI—and has shipped production web APIs for CDN integration on AWS. Her early work spans robotics, autonomous vehicle architectures, and bioinformatics, reflecting a cross-disciplinary aptitude for applying algorithms and security to real-world problems. Colleagues describe her as eager to learn and collaborate, blending rigorous academic thinking with pragmatic engineering to deliver scalable, testable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer and Information Science, Master of Science - MS Computer and Information Science at University of Oregon
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Penn State University