Katherine Philip
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Philip is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in Computer Science at Portland State University with nine years of software engineering experience focused on compilers, language design, and low-level systems. She contributes to research-grade projects—like the Habit programming language and a mil-tools compiler backend—and has interned multiple times at NVIDIA working on MLIR-based analyses, automatic loop parallelization, and an opaque pointers migration for an LLVM-based HPC compiler. Katherine blends academic rigor with practical engineering: she led Rust adoption and real-world projects at KodeFox and has shipped performance-critical game engine optimizations that doubled speed in places. She also brings a creative edge from freelance concept art and game development, reflecting a cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving. Based in Portland, she’s equally comfortable teaching courses from Embedded Rust to Programming Languages and quietly credits her profile picture cat, mini-ben, as unofficial lab morale officer.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Portland State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Human Computer Interaction, Bachelor of Science - BS Human Computer Interaction at Surya University
English, Indonesian, Japanese
Github Skills (118)
multithreading10
game-development10
rust-language10
garbage-collection10
rust-lang10
elm10
compiler10
rust10
crate10
allocator10
widgets10
open-source10
standard-library10
game-engine9
godot9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
atsuzaki/drastical
Apr 2019 - Mar 2023
Microservice in Rust and actix-web for DigiDailies
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
rustactix-webactixrust-langmicroservice
atsuzaki/ravetable
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:35 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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