# Katherine Yen

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Signal Messenger
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Backend engineer on the Integrity team, which builds products that fight monetary fraud on the Lyft platform.

### Undergraduate Student Instructor for Stat 140 @ Department of Statistics, Berkeley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
- Led two weekly sections of 30 students covering the week's lecture material with practice problems
- Assessed, developed, and organizeed content for discussion worksheets and weekly prep problems
- Edited homework and wrote solutions, graded quizzes and exams, hosted office hours for 15+ students

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lyft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Research Assistant @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley
- Analyzed 30 Kaggle competitions for potential data biases and real-world harms as background research for an online textbook on fairness and machine learning (http://fairmlbook.org/)
- Implemented sidebar and home button in pure CSS to aid user navigation of long HTML webpages
- Integrated pipeline for IPython notebook to HTML conversion into existing build structure, automating a tedious manual task and allowing for customization of IPython webpages
- Wrote abstract syntax tree filter for Pandoc converter to create section numbering within a chapter

### Software Engineering Intern @ Kodethon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Davis, CA
- Used AngularJS to redesign the problem display page for Kodethon, a coding interview screening platform for problems resembling everyday tasks faced by software engineers. Improved user experience for navigating problems by adding a collapsible sidebar, timer, and automatic scrolling
- Scraped and parsed 600 HTML pages, extracting descriptions for each problem in the problem library
- Improved user workflow by allowing users to easily submit files from personal Github accounts by building and integrating an OAuth App into the Kodethon platform

### News Reporter @ The Daily Californian
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
- Wrote daily articles on topics such as taxing vacant storefronts and UC sexual violence prevention efforts
- Contributed to impact issues, such as the coverage on the #MeToo movement and UC Berkeley's Charter Day

### Undergraduate Student Instructor for Data 8 @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA
- Developed course content, ran lab sections, hosted office hours, graded exams, and organized surveys and forms

### Summer Legal Intern @ Gunderson Dettmer
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Redwood City, CA
- Organized, summarized and extracted economic data from over 30 biotech licensing agreements
- Designed template for economic data analysis and grouped data into subsamples for further analysis

### Intern @ Patent Law Works LLP
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
I designed a potential new firm website by learning to use Wix, a cloud-based web development platform. I also audited the firm’s database of over 100 patent cases and populated folders with correspondence documents. As the firm's first high school intern, I created a 50-page interactive document-naming resource manual for future interns and docketing personnel.


## Education
### Los Altos High School

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10