Katherine Chengli
Senior II Software Development Engineer at PagerDuty
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKatherine Chengli is a Senior II Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building resilient backend systems at PagerDuty from her base in Ottawa. She specializes in work that sits just above physical infrastructure—networked systems, SDN-related tooling, and backend services—while maintaining full-stack fluency and a readiness to pick up new languages. Her career includes impactful internships and co-ops at IBM, NTT, and Alcatel-Lucent where she delivered measurable efficiency gains, automated processes, and strengthened testability for embedded and enterprise systems. Katherine emphasizes collaborative, empathetic engineering and values transparency and curiosity as drivers of efficient team outcomes. Notably, she has a history of synthesizing cross-company requirements into single sources of truth and saving substantial developer time through clear documentation and tooling. She holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa and brings both research-minded depth and practical production experience to distributed systems challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Language, Japanese Language at Ottawa Japanese Language School (OJLS)Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Ottawa
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
in-scope7
api6
messagebird6
pagerduty5
javascript4
dashboard4
testing4
nodejs4
java-client4
java4
supertest4
superagent4
client-library4
agent4
fluent-api4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
uoForms/quickforms3
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 9 months
dashboardsframeworkapplication-frameworkdashboardbi-dashboards
katchengli/tech-interview-prep
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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