# Katherine Tung > Staff Software Developer at Headspace Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/katherinetung Software Engineer with several years of experience building web applications throughout the stack, with a focus on the front end. Passionate about improving web performance. Loves the logic puzzle of bringing up 10 different graphs and 5 service logs to chase down the root cause of a bug. Obsessed with cats. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Headspace Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Senior Full Stack SDE @ Zillow Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 - Analyzed the legacy search page code to create a comprehensive migration plan to a new microservice - Coordinated with other teams to ensure technical alignment during the multi-step migration process ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Zillow Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area - Worked on two high traffic pages - home details page and search results page - Spearheaded improved page performance through reducing wasted React renders - Led weekly team reviews of service metrics as well as root-cause investigations of regressions - Migrated old YUI and Tapestry code to React + GraphQL - Updated test framework to use headless Chrome instead of PhantomJs ### Technical Cofounder @ PaintBerri.com Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Bellevue, WA - Built and maintained all aspects of a responsive MEAN stack web application, from designing MongoDB schema with a focus on scalability to ensuring the site displayed well on both desktop and mobile. - Created powerful WebGL and HTML5 browser painting programs, which have been used by digital artists to draw 100k+ pieces of original art. - Closely communicated with users and handled bug reports quickly to ensure a good user experience. - Managed own schedule and direction, learning MEAN stack and WebGL, enabling the site to operate and rapidly evolve despite being the sole developer on a team of two. ### Software Engineer @ Expedia Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Bellevue, WA - Worked on Expedia’s travel agent portal across the stack, utilizing Java, C#, and SQL to enable thousands of travel agents to book trips and check their commissions. - Drove rewrite of an old and scattered report interface to an improved single-page interface using Backbone, improving the user experience and maintainability of one of the most used parts of the site. - Migrated the AARP point of sale to new architecture and worked with the team from AARP to update API calls and authentication logic. This allowed the users of Expedia’s 11th largest point of sale to have a superior booking experience while getting AARP exclusive discounts. - Ramped up and reviewed code of junior devs. - Recognized for ability to accurately translate UI designs into clean HTML/CSS/Javascript. ### Consultant @ Pariveda Solutions Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Bellevue, WA - Worked closely with Expedia FTEs as a consultant. - Ensured correct functionality of partner tracking using Fiddler, browser development tools, and ASP, so that deeplink traffic was appropriately tracked and redirected to the correct destination. - Kept the AARP point of sale up to date by creating and updating top level pages, rebranding widgets for other points of sale for use with AARP, and handling deployment of content changes to production. - Tracked down and identified the root cause of a bug blocking the migration of the Hotwire point of sale to the updated code platform. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science University of Washington Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### Newport High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/katherine-tung-31411742 --- Source: https://flows.cv/katherinetung JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/katherinetung/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22