# Katharine X. > Software Engineer Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/katharine ## Work Experience ### Founding Software Engineer @ Natoma Jan 2024 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Architected and implemented foundational systems powering our pilot launch: distributed workload scheduling, million-entity daily ingestion pipelines, cross-platform notification infrastructure, and policy-based security frameworks. • Established production operations discipline by building comprehensive on-call processes, automated monitoring systems, and team-wide incident response capabilities. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Watershed Bio Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States • Architected and spearheaded a team-wide effort to implement automated bioinformatics workflows. • Ran team stand ups and sprint planning, translating project requirements into prioritized technical tasks and coordinating task assignments. • Designed system architecture for the existing microservice architecture based on Docker Swarm. ### Senior Software Engineer @ DataCebo Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 • As a founding engineer, drove open-source adoption and user engagement in our Python OSS libraries (SDV, SDMetrics) while developing core Machine Learning algorithms that formed the foundation of our commercial product. • Enabled our first revenue milestone by architecting a comprehensive customer delivery system and implementing a AWS performance testing infrastructure to ensure quality and performance. • Ensured quality of our product by building out a testing pipeline on AWS that ran performance and benchmarking pipelines at scale. ### Software Engineer @ Clever Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Worked on Clever's EdTech analytics platform, creating tools for teachers and districts to understand EdTech usage and participation within schools. ### Software Engineer @ Rubrik, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, CA Let the project for building out a scalable job framework on top of Kubernetes to run product workloads. Worked on the cloud infrastructure team for Rubrik’s SaaS product, maintaining a microservice-based architecture that is deployed on GKE. Other Projects: • Created a data ingestion pipeline, including a polling service abstraction, and surfaced data through our GraphQL API server. (GoLang, Scala) • Triaged urgent issues and maintaining production availability within the on-call rotation. • A mentor in the new-hire mentorship program; an intern mentor. • Helped organize events for the Women@Rubrik resource group. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, CA Worked on core growth products at Facebook, maintaining web products in PHP, Javascript, and GraphQL. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Tubular Labs Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA Designed and implemented a service for generalized data analysis and metric calculation. I also wrote scripts to analyze trends to determine a channel's influential videos. Helped maintain the Tubular web application by fixing bugs in AngularJS, CoffeeScript, Elasticsearch, and Python. ### Undergraduate Researcher (Personal Robots Group) @ MIT Media Lab Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA Integrated sensor data from the Kinect v2 into Robot Operating System (ROS) to allow for robots to respond to human gestures and conversation. Enabled the robot to subscribe to and parse through different sensor data, and created a user interface to allow for dynamic selection of sensor data. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Applied Predictive Technologies Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Arlington, VA Developed a full-stack web application feature using C# and SQL, and refactored the existing feature to allow for dynamic data. Designed and implemented an optimization algorithm in SQL, and developed a test suite based on client use-cases. ### Research Intern @ United States Naval Observatory Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Researched and modeled a GPS satellite in orbit using Fortran. Developed and implemented an algorithm to calculate the area illuminated by sunlight based on satellite’s current orientation in orbit. At the end of the internship, I presented my results to research faculty and navy employees. ## Education ### Master of Science - MEng in GPA: 5.0/5.0, Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science in GPA: 5.0/5.0, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/katharine-x-5238365a --- Source: https://flows.cv/katharine JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/katharine/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-28