Summary
Katrine R is a software development engineer with nine years of experience building production ML and distributed systems at Amazon, currently contributing to the Buy with Prime (Santos) team. A CMU MSCS graduate, she previously spent 3.5 years shaping Alexa’s NLU platform—owning authoring, testing and automated release pipelines for ML artifacts—and built ML CI/CD and checkpointing solutions for large-scale training on retail search teams. Her background blends applied cryptography research from Aarhus University and HKU with hands-on engineering across search, supply-chain tools, and web services, reflecting strong algorithmic foundations honed as a head TA at CMU. Based in Seattle, she combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic platform-building skills that accelerate developer productivity and model reuse.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at Aarhus University
Distinguished Freshmen Summer Camp, Distinguished Freshmen Summer Camp at University of Oxford
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English, c/c++, java, python