Katherine Shen
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Shen is a software development engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, data-driven systems, currently focused on Payments Intelligence at Amazon in Austin. A Georgia Tech CS alum, she progressed from intern roles at AWS OpenSearch and Johns Hopkins APL to full-time engineering positions where she specialized in ingestion pipelines and large-scale data preparation. Her background blends research-oriented problem solving with production engineering, having led developer teams in the Georgia Tech VIP program and contributed to OpenSearch ingestion work. Known for tackling messy data and turning it into actionable systems, she brings a pragmatic, backend-first approach to payment and search infrastructure challenges.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at College of Computing at Georgia Tech
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Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shenkw1/resume
Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
Katherine Shen's resume
Contributions:1 review, 19 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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shenkw1/data-prepper
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Data Prepper is a component of the OpenSearch project that accepts, filters, transforms, enriches, and routes data at scale.
Contributions:185 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year 8 months
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