Katherine Allen
Casual Academic at UNSW
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Allen is a software engineering student at UNSW with a decade of hands-on experience spanning academia, industry internships, and research support roles. As a current Casual Academic tutoring data structures and algorithms, she blends teaching experience with practical engineering skills honed during internships at Google and Macquarie Group where she contributed server-side caching and location-risk tooling. Her GitHub work includes Android Google Maps SDK samples—demonstrating Kotlin expertise and advanced map UI features like multi-marker z-index and camera control—reflecting a strong mobile development focus. Early technical roles at CSIRO exposed her to hardware assembly and technical documentation for radio telescope systems, an uncommon cross-disciplinary background for a software engineer. Based in Greater Sydney, she is eager to translate academic foundations into production-ready software and developer-facing examples.
10 years of coding experience
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (6)
kotlin10
javas10
android10
google-map10
java10
google-maps10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
googlemaps-samples/android-samples
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Samples demonstrating how to use Maps SDK for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 33 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Katherine primarily contributed to the Android-based Google Maps SDK samples. Their work focused on implementing new features such as a multi-marker demo with z-index, a Kotlin-based marker demo, a camera control demo, and examples of polygons, polylines, and visible region manipulation. The user also made improvements to the marker demo with lint fixes. The commits demonstrate creating various UI elements within the map interface.
android-mapsandroid-samplesandroidsdkkotlin
katherineallen/android-samples
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
apiandroid-mapsgoogleandroidandroid-api
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