Katherine Chao
Senior Software Engineer at Personio
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Chao is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer based in the New York City metro area with a 12-year career that spans full-stack product engineering and new product launches. She played a key role at Google building a brand-new product for Google Surveys from the ground up and has continued to deliver at growth-stage companies like Trunk and Personio. Comfortable across front-end and back-end domains, she brings deep product intuition and a track record of shipping features that move metrics. Her education across UC Berkeley, Grenoble INP, and UCL reflects a strong international technical foundation and multidisciplinary perspective. Known for blending pragmatic execution with thoughtful design, she thrives in environments that require building systems from first principles while iterating quickly. An early intern background at Course Hero and Connected Cycle hints at a long-standing curiosity for product-driven engineering and user-focused solutions.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMaster’s Degree Informatics, Master’s Degree Informatics at Grenoble INP - UGAUniversity College London
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
formatters7
plugin7
security6
lint5
linting5
trunk4
linter4
developer-tools4
epsilon1
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
katchao/silver-islands
Jun 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:94 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
katchao/raytracer
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 19 days
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