Katherine Kin
Software Engineer at Indeed.com
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Kin is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and developer platforms, currently driving feature delivery and cross-team design at Indeed in the Austin area. She brings a strong background in distributed systems and platform engineering, with hands-on expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, GraphQL, CI/CD, and multi-language stacks honed across roles at Indeed, Amazon, and ExxonMobil. Her career began in computational biology, where she built models and Python tools to analyze regulatory mutations, sparking a practical appreciation for applying CS to scientific problems. Katherine pairs full-stack implementation skills with performance and maintainability improvements—often leading cross-team reviews and automating pipelines—to deliver high-visibility user impact. Unusually for an engineer, she also trained as a dentist and chemical engineer, reflecting an interdisciplinary mindset that helps her translate complex domain requirements into robust software solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Dental Surgery, Doctor of Dental Surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of HoustonBachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, 3.84, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, 3.84 at Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Dental Surgery, 3.70/4.00, Doctor of Dental Surgery, 3.70/4.00 at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
java3
java-programming2
programming-language2
editor2
code-editor2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cflores713/decaf
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
A collaborative endeavor to create a small code editor for the Java programming language; hence the name "decaf."
Contributions:28 commits, 22 pushes in 3 months
code-editorjava-programmingsmall-codejava-programming-languagejava
katherinekin/virtual-cbct
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push in 6 months
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