# Allison K.

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/allisonk

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Parabola
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Teaching Assistant for Intro CS @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Philadelphia Area
• Teaching weekly recitations of 15-20 students the fundamentals of programming with OCaml and Java on subjects like inheritance, abstract stack machine, and optimization
• Spending 10 hours a week teaching in classes, in office hours, and grading.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Azure SDK
• Designed and built first .NET preview of Track 2 Azure Tables SDK for accessing Microsoft’s No-SQL database services; collaborated with 3 other teams to ensure coheisve SDKs for .NET, Python, Javascript, and Java
• Created documentation and READMEs for Azure customers to readily adopt the new SDK, including 160k monthly customers using the previous SDK

Visual Studio for Mac
• Fixed Intellisense of XML tags in VS for Mac to correctly display all the information for nested tags and folding XML sections; implemented both FE and BE of data handling and text display

### Explore Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area

### Teaching Assistant for Data-based Art @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
• Taught workshops for a Java-based, open-source graphical library called Processing to a fine arts class 
• Aided students in coding with Processing to take in and visually represent self-recorded data to create a physical art piece

### Camp Counselor @ Girls Make Games
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, Washington
• Mentoring student teams on block programming and developing games in Stencyl
• Teaching 25 students from 2nd to 11th grade the basics of game programming
• Resolving the students’ various technical issues (e.g., run time errors, compilation errors)
• Leading the teams through scope management and project milestones

### Kode with Klossy Instructor Assistant @ Kode With Klossy
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Baltimore, Maryland Area
• Teaching assistant for Level 1 coding class for girls aged 13-17 in Baltimore.
• Taught approximately 20 students over the course of two weeks, the majority of whom now plan to pursue a CS or Engineering degree. Taught coding concepts both to the class and individually.
• Covered Ruby, HTML, CSS, and Sinatra from entry level to delivery of sophisticated final projects that included fully functional web applications deployed with Heroku.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Digital Media Design
University of Pennsylvania

### Oxford Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/allison-k-702a32129

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Last updated: 2026-04-10