Katie Gu
Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Gu is a Software Engineer II with a decade of experience building ML-driven products that bridge research and production, currently working on AWS WorkSpaces console/SDK. At Amazon Lab126 she led the Find Person initiative for Amazon Astro, combining computer vision, robotics navigation, and LLMs to improve real-world search success and cut latencies and resource usage significantly, culminating in a U.S. patent for a novel search algorithm. She excels at turning ambiguous research problems into scalable systems—architecting probabilistic Monte Carlo frameworks, reducing memory footprint by 30%, and increasing test coverage and observability. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate and former CS instructor, she brings strong mentoring and teaching experience that complements her product ownership and cross-functional leadership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
hopper5
react3
music3
nextjs2
docker1
nodejs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
itsmebeanie/itsmebeanie.github.io
Nov 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
itsmebeanie/personal
Nov 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:52 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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