# Joseph K.

> Software Engineer at Ginger Labs

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Ginger Labs
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineering Co-Op @ Ginger Labs
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Created a proof of concept full text search service for the Note Gallery using Elasticsearch and laid the groundwork for future search features.
- Created a system to differentiate between user-facing and internal errors. Enabled better alerting through Google Cloud Logs, hid implementation details from users, and streamlined development.
- Redesigned and the Note Gallery categories backend from the ground up to support arbitrarily nested categories.
- Implemented a triaging service for Note Gallery moderators.
- Implemented highlighting the current spoken word in Notability when using text-to-speech using low-level graphics apis.

### Teaching Assistant - Object Oriented Design @ Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area

### Software Engineering Co-Op @ Lola.com
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts
- Built bank account linking with Stripe and Plaid for a new product from the ground up
- Created self-service feature for users to edit loyalty numbers post-booking
- Helped increase flight search speed by 10x
- Updated detection and display of red-eye flights

### Optum Technology Software Engineering Intern @ UnitedHealth Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts
Created full-stack application to intake users to an internal testing tool. Added content cards to inform users about the tool, and a dynamic questionnaire to determine testing needs and compatibility. Reduced intake time from days to minutes.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Stony Brook University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Stonybrook, New York
Worked with Professor Klaus Mueller, Department of Computer Science, in the Visual Analytics, Geometric Modeling, and Imaging lab to find and visualize empty space in n-th dimensional datasets.

### High School Research Program @ Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | United States
Developed a software package for real-time data analysis, named xpdView, for the XPD beamline at NSLS-II as a part of a team of college interns and researchers. The software was written in Python and used PyQt and MatPlotLib libraries for graphing and the user interface. It is used by beamline scientists at XPD beamline to view experimental trends in data as they occur.

https://github.com/NSLS-II-XPD/xpdView


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Northeastern University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joseph-kt
- Portfolio: https://www.joekt.dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-29