Summary
Kathy Ge is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building ML-driven systems for large-scale marketplaces and recommendations. At Uber she has focused on courier pricing, simulation and experimentation, and previously held applied scientist roles developing ranking and personalized recommendation models. Her background includes data science and engineering at Shopify where she worked on large-scale product categorization and a prototype integration with Uber’s Hudi, reflecting comfort with both modeling and data infrastructure. Kathy also taught AI and machine learning courses at the University of Toronto, translating research topics like MCTS and bandits into hands-on instruction. She combines strong academic foundations (Master’s in Computer Science, U of T) with production-first delivery, bridging research, data pipelines, and pricing experimentation. Colleagues would note her pattern of moving between model development and systems work, making her effective at turning ML research into scalable product features.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Toronto
French, English