Katie Poa

Katie Poa

Katie Poa

Software Engineer

A bright, positive, impact-driven Fullstack Software Engineer in San Francisco Bay Area seeking diverse growth opportunities in Software Engineering. I love being challenged and enriched by various perspectives and approaches to problems, and get excited by the satisfaction of tangible results!

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2022 — 2022RentableSoftware Engineer - Rentable Marketplace

2022 — 2022

Careers page redesign https://www.rentable.co/careers

HTML Sitemaps https://www.rentable.co/us

Reviews on property pages redesign

2021 — 2022RentableSoftware Engineer - Apartment IQ

2021 — 2022

Apartment IQ Redesign - Sidebar Search, Hide Columns Dropdown, Units Table Toggles, Table name property links

2020 — 2021Personal ProjectsSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2021

2020 — 2020Personal ProjectsPokéGacha - React, CSS, Styled Components, Node.js/Express, MongoDB/mongoose

2020 — 2020

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Integrated Pokémon API endpoints to generate queries from user input

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Implemented random selection for 18 types upon button-click functionality

2020 — 2020Personal ProjectsTopTable | Photo Gallery component- React, Node.js/Express, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Docker, AWS

2020 — 2020

NGINX, New Relic, k6

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Scaled up the backend of a server to handle 10 million restaurant records and 45 million photo records

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Compared PostgreSQL (RDBMS) and Cassandra (NoSQL) query times, stress tested service and proxy on k6 using New Relic

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Implemented NginX load balancer and 3 AWS EC2 t2.micro instances to achieve ~600 requests per second

Education

Hack Reactor

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Phillips Exeter Academy

High School Diploma