Pauline Kerschen
Senior Software Developer at LawBox
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPauline Kerschen is a Senior Software Developer and team lead based in Berkeley with 11 years of professional experience building full-stack web and mobile systems and leading campus-critical services. She architects and delivers cloud-native solutions, APIs, and data pipelines using Python/Flask, TypeScript/Vue/Node, Ruby on Rails, Java (Android) and AWS, and currently leads development for UC Berkeley’s bCourses, online evaluations, and advising platforms. As Chief Engineer at LawBox she combined product architecture, development, and operations for legal reference tools, bringing domain-driven design to regulated content. Her background in literature and a Ph.D. in English gives her unusual strengths in technical communication, user-focused documentation, and translating complex requirements into clear software specifications. Active on GitHub, she balances hands-on coding with team mentorship and long-term platform stewardship, favoring pragmatic, testable solutions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
Ph.D., English, Ph.D., English at University of California, BerkeleyMFA, English, MFA, English at University of IowaB.A., English, B.A., English at Stanford University
Spanish, German, French, Italian, Greek, Catalan
Github Skills (44)
jquery10
networked10
python10
data-warehouse10
capistrano10
statistics10
java10
stream10
ets10
junction10
boa10
delta-lake9
learning-management-system9
lti9
data-analytics9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ets-berkeley-edu/lrs-sqs-poller
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 8 months
ets-berkeley-edu/ripley
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:38 reviews, 496 PRs, 279 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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