Summary
Theresa Cay is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building infrastructure and developer platforms at Uber, currently focused on datacenter and cloud traffic ingress as well as DDoS detection and mitigation for edge traffic. With a B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and ongoing computer science coursework, she brings a researcher's curiosity and empirical approach to distributed systems and internal tooling. Promoted twice within Uber's knowledge engineering team, she has a track record of improving developer experience, internal search, and documentation at scale. Trained in leadership and strategy through Harvard Business School Executive Education, she blends technical depth with strategic product thinking. Based in San Francisco, she thrives on learning new technologies and solving high-stakes operational challenges that sit at the intersection of networking, security, and platform reliability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certifications Leadership and Strategy, Certifications Leadership and Strategy at Harvard Business School Executive Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Molecular and Cellular Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Computer Science, Computer Science at Continuing Education
French, Tagalog, Spanish, English