# Katie Wong

> Engineering @ Sierra

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

Katie Wong is a highly motivated, execution driven software engineer with experience at companies of varying sizes from Snapchat to small series A software companies with <10 engineers. She has experience working cross-functionally between product, design, and even onboarding sales teams to new experiences she developed. She is currently a product platform backend engineer who is passionate about performance in scalable systems and designing robust systems.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Sierra
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Platform Engineering

### Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Parafin
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA
Tech lead for Product Platform - building core backend services for product teams

### Software Engineer ll @ Pavilion
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Full Stack Engineer owning and building foundational monetization features and complex data management systems at 5x elite velocity according to LinearB Engineering Benchmarks

### Software Engineer @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full-stack engineer on AR Monetization, Lens Web Builder (LWB), owning Internationalization and Localization for the entire application

### Course Producer for Computer Science @ University of Southern California
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Leading labs and teaching basic memory management and algorithms

### Software Engineer Intern @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### President @ HackSC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Inspire and promote innovation by organizing USC's 800-person premier hackathon

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Full-stack engineer on the internal Microsoft directory application building fully accessible e2e profile package features that merge data from a new Microsoft acquisition

### Co-Founder/Software Engineer @ Nibble Eats
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ LavaLab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Co-lead software developer for the winning team for USC's premier startup incubator. Built e2e application allowing users to purchase leftover restaurant items at a lower price during the last hour of operation. 
(React Native/Google firebase backend)

### TDP Software Intern @ AT&T
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
Backend engineer increasing data retrieval efficiency for internal configuration tools with GraphQL and interservice db communication

### Mechanical Engineer Intern @ IronRidge
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Hayward, CA
Solar mounting product testing for durability and environmental conditions using Instron and Skidmore


## Education
### Bachelors in Computer Science
University of Southern California
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/katie-wong-04938216b
- Website: https://kwong1999.github.io/katiewongportfolio/

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Source: https://flows.cv/katiewong
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/katiewong/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22