# Catherine Tan

> Software Engineer at Beacons

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Beacons
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Quora
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Working on the Product team

### Android Development Intern @ Tumblr
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
- Worked with the mobile product engineering team on Group Chat and Notes View features in the Tumblr app
- Created a custom blog card (contains post previews and click throughs) that gets sent with a Tumblr blog URL
- Developed with Tumblr’s real time database and launched a feature to update UI when receiving live updates
- Updated the typing indicator animation and implemented more accurate and user-friendly behavior
- Utilized Android libraries (Dagger, Retrofit, Fresco, Jackson), recycler views, and MVI/MVVM/MVP architecture
- Collaborated with engineers in fast-paced engineering cycles using Git and contributed to overall app health
- Communicated technical obstacles to product managers and designers and added to new feature specifications

### Mobile Development Intern @ Quicken Loans
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Detroit, Michigan
- Using Flutter, a cross-platform framework, to develop an internal referral app for the company
- Storing data using Cloud Firestore
- Implemented OAuth 2.0 for internal team member authentication

### Android Development Intern @ Quicken Loans
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Detroit, Michigan
- Developing an app in Android Studio that returns mortgage solutions for a desired house by letting the user take a photo of the house or tap on the house in map view
- Implementing AR technology into the app


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
UCLA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Vincent Massey Secondary School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/catherinetan52

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Last updated: 2026-03-20