Katherine Xu
Software Engineer 2 at Disney Streaming
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Xu is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with 8 years of experience, currently building metadata and cloud-native pipelines for Hulu at Disney Streaming. She specializes in Java and Spring Boot, AWS services (S3, SNS, SQS, Dynamo), Kubernetes and Terraform, and pairs that server-side expertise with front-end exposure in React/Angular and a background in C#, Python and C++. Katherine has moved rapidly through production roles since 2020, combining hands-on implementation with architectural thinking around metadata systems. Based in Los Angeles, she also brings research-minded depth from a GitHub profile tied to computer vision and prior academic roles, which helps her bridge rigorous problem-solving with pragmatic product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of MinnesotaEastview Senior High School
Github Skills (8)
tactics9
configurations8
security7
vulnerabilities7
cybersecurity6
mitre-attack6
threat-hunting6
computation3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
k8xu/k8xu.github.io
Apr 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
k8xu/gender_novels
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Descriptions of Gender in Writing
Contributions:50 pushes in 3 months
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