Katherine Sun
Software Engineer at Apple
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Sun is a software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable release and localization systems, currently contributing at Apple after progressing from an intern role in the same space. Her background spans research and product-focused internships—from notifications at Nextdoor to app development for Kenyan computer labs—reflecting a strong interest in using technology to empower education and communities. She blends academic rigor from the University of Chicago with practical R&D experience at Seagate and NOAA-affiliated bioinformatics projects documented on her GitHub. Katherine has hands-on release engineering expertise combined with localization sensibilities, making her effective at shipping global software. She’s equally comfortable in research settings and fast-paced consumer tech environments, and she’s known to enjoy Chipotle—a small but telling sign of team-culture fit.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of MinnesotaBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of ChicagoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Eden Prairie Senior High School
French, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
imputation9
artifacts-detection9
genomics9
phylogeny9
dna-sequences8
hosts8
genetics8
genomics-visualization7
population-structure7
normalization7
seq7
html6
population-genetics6
frontend6
filter6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ksil91/Ostrea_PopStructure
Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:51 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
isadorafranca/2016_Notebook
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:45 commits in 10 months
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