# Georgia K. > Senior Software Engineer @ Paypal Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/georgia Software engineer & gardener. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2024 – Present ### Software Engineer II @ PayPal Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Honey Jan 2021 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Backend Software Engineer @ Maven Machines Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater Pittsburgh Area One of three backend engineers building the Dispatch product, which consists of a Web App for dispatchers, an Android app for truck drivers, and an external API for trucking companies’ TMS to send over route and shipment data to our backend. Owned the lifecycle of a configurable feature which auto-merges shipments sent from client TMS via API. Worked directly with trucking clients as well as product managers to determine requirements. Wrote tech design, coded up feature, wrote unit tests, worked with QA to test e2e, and deployed to production. Contributed to core architecture. Improved failure handling and logging in core library which instantiates pubsub topics (the library serves as an internal wrapper around amqplib). Owned implementation of HTTP metrics and alerting for external Dispatch API. Hooked up Prometheus scraping to collect metrics and wired up Slack alerts for subset of metrics. This significantly improved the quality of life of engineers, as we were able to fix production issues faster. It also shed light on API latency, which was subsequently improved. Onboarded new engineers. Wrote system documentation for multiple stakeholders. Participated in the on-call rotation. Participated in releases involving multiple dependencies. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Maven Machines Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area Lead integration engineer for Maven’s first international client. Modified existing external APIs for new client use-case. Wrote an outgoing event stream for client use-case. Participated in live road tests to ensure proper event firing. ### Freelancer @ Self-Employed Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 Indexed and copyedited the following books: The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism Oxford University Press (2016) https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/27986 If You Meet the Buddha on the Road Oxford University Press (2017) https://academic.oup.com/book/2873 Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World Springer (2020) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-32-9884-2 ### Physical Therapy Technician @ Physical Therapy Now Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area Trained and supervised patients, after developing knowledge of appropriate exercises. Documented patient progress and response to therapeutic activities. Used software to schedule appointments and maintain medical and financial records. ### Coordinator @ Refugee Accommodation & Solidarity Space City Plaza Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Athens, Greece Worked with international team to coordinate resident's daily life -- including teaching 2 English classes. - Beginner's English - woman-only Afghani class - Intermediate English - class comprised of Syrian, Afghani, Pakistani, and Iranian students To learn more about City Plaza: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Plaza - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xftamdHqVy4 ### Communications Intern @ Eastern Ohio Education Partnership Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Warren, Ohio Developed annual fundraising campaign and planned events. Compiled donor database. Wrote blogs. Developed model of public database service. ### Legal Intern @ Immigrant Worker Project Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Canton, Ohio Area Interviewed undocumented Central American immigrants in Spanish. Transcribed interviews into English to assist legal team. Data was utilized to build a case to petition for asylum on behalf of immigrants. ### Chief Copyeditor @ Journal of Religion & Violence Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 Copy-edited articles and indexed books under strict deadlines. Communicated with scholars and publishers regarding manuscript status. Created database to track peer-reviewers and submissions in the copy-editing process, allowing the JRV team to store and easily update information. ### Campaign Manager @ Ugandan Water Project Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Youngstown, Ohio Area Planned and executed campaign which raised $4,300. Fully funded a water tank, later installed in an Ugandan community of 2,000. Led team of 10. Handled timeline and operations of 5k race. Managed sales of merchandise. Oversaw balance sheet and marketing efforts. ## Education ### Professional Certificate in Data Structures and Algorithms in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ### Software Development Tech Elevator Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ### Modern Greek Language and Literature National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### Spanish Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in English, Spanish; minor in Religious Studies Youngstown State University Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/georgiakasamias --- Source: https://flows.cv/georgia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/georgia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22