Summary
Kim Paterson is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building back-end APIs, data infrastructure, and user-facing applications, currently leading the Google Gemini and PaLM API efforts. She combines an interdisciplinary background as a copywriter-turned-engineer with deep machine learning and IoT experience from X (the moonshot factory), where she led data pipelines and shipped multiple end-to-end user apps. Comfortable wearing product, UX, and technical hats, she focuses on pragmatic systems thinking to solve human-centered problems using data and ML. Beyond engineering, she runs a part-time photography business whose work has been featured on Google Chromecast backdrops, reflecting a practical creative sensibility that informs her product and design instincts.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English