Kelsey Namba
Senior Software Engineer at Prepared
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelsey Namba is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building web applications and backend services across startups and higher-education platforms. With a foundation in computer science and linguistics from Columbia University, she blends analytical rigor (mathematics tutoring and geometry) with hands-on engineering in Ruby on Rails, Java, MEAN stack, and cloud deployments. At Handshake she moved from intern to engineer contributing to permission systems and cross-functional incident rotations, and now drives product-focused engineering at Prepared. She brings a rare mix of teaching experience and multilingual aptitude (Russian) that helps her explain complex systems clearly to diverse stakeholders. Kelsey’s background in research, ERG participation, and early-stage fellowship interviews gives her both technical depth and strong interpersonal instincts for building inclusive products.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at Columbia UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Orcutt Academy Charter
Chinese, Russian
Github Skills (16)
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gtk10
qt10
matplotlib10
data-science9
python9
data-visualization9
visualization9
javascript7
highlighting1
canvas1
command-line-tool1
syntax-highlighting1
elm1
elm-language1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CU-Humanoid2018Spring/ROganized
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:84 commits, 68 pushes in 2 months
kdz/kdz.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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