Katherine Kuan
Staff Software Engineer Software Engineer Manager at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Kuan is a Staff Software Engineer and manager with 15 years of experience specializing in touch sensing and image/video processing algorithms, currently leading engineering efforts at Google from Sunnyvale. She has a proven track record of taking Matlab/Python models into production—delivering palm rejection, anti-bending, noise reduction and other algorithms that shipped in customer hardware—and is comfortable working across firmware, drivers, ASIC teams and field engineers. Hands-on with embedded systems and Android UI work, she has also contributed to the Android Contacts app to improve responsive layouts and UX for multiple device sizes. With a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine, Katherine blends deep research rigor with pragmatic product delivery and frequent customer collaboration to tune solutions for real-world constraints.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. EE, B.S. EE at National Chiao Tung UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android-development10
layout9
page-layout9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_packages_apps_contacts
Apr 2011 - Jan 2012
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:451 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Katherine's contributions focused on developing and refactoring UI elements within the Android Contacts app. Specifically, the user refactored the contact editor to inflate views from XML, enabling the layout to adapt responsively on both phones and tablets. The changes included getting rid of duplicate labels and aligning fields, along with implementing the "Add field" functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with visual components like the tab carousel by aligning elements and implementing better display for different sized devices.
google-developer-training/android-basics-kotlin-cupcake-app
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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