# Katherine Shu

> Founding Engineer @ Wavelength

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/katherineshu

Hi! I'm very curious about AI and software development. I also love learning new skills and I have an interdisciplinary viewpoint between the arts and STEM. You can reach me at katherineshu@berkeley.edu. I look forward to meeting you and having many laughs together!

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Wavelength
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer (L4) @ Netflix
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Los Gatos, California, United States

### Software Engineer (L3) @ Netflix
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Los Gatos, California, United States
• Design and implement workflows with assisted translation (speech-to-text, translation, etc) to provide seamless dubbing and subtitling for Netflix shows
• Shape the junior program at Netflix by being apart of the first new grad class

### Teaching Assistant - CS188, EECS16B @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California
- Help students understand the material through detailed explanations, group exercises, and practice problems
- Create custom rubrics and content for a class of 1000+ students

### Research Assistant @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Experiment with different RL methods to train a bulldozer to autonomously function
• Investigate the impact of reward design, hierarchical policies, and adding a human in the loop

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
• Created and tested an end to end tab adoption model that incorporated channel agnostic data
• Analyzed data insights and metrics from the model to help shape future roadmap plans

### Software Engineer Intern @ ModernLoop
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Collaborate with an 8 person team to create an application that automates interview scheduling
- Implement front-end designs using React, Typescript, and GraphQL

### Software Engineer Intern @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Design and build a NLU pipeline to allow new commands to be easily added
- Interact with cloud services and mobile friendly ML frameworks like PyTorch Mobile

### Summer of Vision Fellowship @ Etsy
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Etsy Summer of Vision (ESV) is a 12-week fellowship program designed to pair up to 24 students with mentors from Etsy’s Machine Learning teams in order to explore computer vision applications for the future of Etsy’s shopping experience. The program was created especially with students who have had rescinded internship offers due to COVID-19 in mind. ESV participants will work closely with industry experts to get hands-on machine learning experience, tackling real-world e-commerce challenges around the prompt “How might we use visual cues to improve Etsy’s shopping experience?”

### Software Engineer Intern @ Beyond Limits
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Implement front-end features in React to help with current sprints
- Research and conduct user testing to determine how to make the diagram editor more applicable and usable

### European Innovation Academy Participant @ European Innovation Academy
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cascais, Portugal
- Created Aegis Systems (a startup developing wearable IoT sensors that relay information to a central software platform to provide quicker responses to work-related injuries)
- Networked with mentors and participants from around the world
- Interacted with speakers during keynote sessions

### Software Engineering Summit @ Capital One
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- Engaged in technical and soft-skill workshops
- Developed and presented group’s hackathon project to Capital One leadership
- Formed connections with coders from around the country


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05