# Kaya Woodall

> Senior Software Engineer at Read AI

Location: Moab, Utah, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kaya

Backend software engineer based in Southern Utah with 8 years of experience. Specialist in all things authentication & authorization. GIS enthusiast. AWS & Terraform savvy. Reluctantly fluent in python.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Read AI
Jan 2024 – Present | Utah, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ One Medical
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Utah, United States
‣ Made critical contributions towards the CEHRT-ification effort for the proprietary Onelife EHR, particularly regarding compliance with the g.10 criteria and enabling patients to connect third-party apps of their choice to their own health data
‣ Contributed to architecture, design, feasibility, and optimization discussions regarding new authentication and authorization features
‣ Maintained & updated various auth helper libraries, services, and proxies throughout the Onelife ecosystem
‣ Helped develop Auth0 rules & Twilio integrations to enforce MFA requirements for members
‣ Managed routine maintenance & upgrades to Auth0 terraform infrastructure, including standing up new auth tenants, migrating tenants to New Universal Login, etc.
‣ Established & documented deployment process using github tags and releases where there previously had been none
‣ Continuously improved documentation, both for internal identity team use and for our users (other engineering teams)

### Senior Software Engineer @ CARMERA (now Woven by Toyota)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area
‣  Contributed to architectural design discussions for, and later implemented, data ingest pipeline components using AWS Lambda, SQS, Aurora w/ PostgreSQL, and the RDS Data API.
‣  Designed and implemented bespoke "Translators" that convert vector data from third-party source formats to a proprietary internal data model and then to customer-defined map schemas using a variety of geospatial transformations, graph-traversal algorithms, and data modeling techniques.
‣  Automated the transformation of legacy data to comply with new schemas.
‣  Contributed to the rollout of an org-wide auth&auth standard by evaluating vendors, creating proof-of-concept implementations, and writing developer tools and libraries to ease adoption.
‣  Independently designed and implemented a plug-and-play logging client that enforces a static top-level ELK schema while sandboxing the content of a service's logs to their own namespace.
‣  Created a fully-loaded github template that models a python module packaged as a library and uploaded to our internal PyPi index, eliminating the need for new projects to manually configure packaging, CI pipeline workflow integration, and deployment.

### Software Development Engineer @ DigitalGlobe
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Westminster, CO
‣  Expanded and maintained internal APIs for a PostgreSQL image metadata server with over 6 million records
‣  Massively refactored and optimized the service that applies calibration files to raw sensor data
‣  Converted “glueware” scripts into proper AWS Lambda functions and integrated with existing Step Functions
‣  Implemented custom authorizers supporting multiple authentication & authorization methods for API Gateway
‣  Continuously expanded API functionality with new Lambdas, utilizing SSM, SQS, SNS, S3, and IAM
‣  Assisted in streamlining API Gateway and backing Lambda function deployment process using Jenkins, Terraform, and Terragrunt

### Software Developer @ minuteKEY
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Boulder, CO
‣ Managed collection, labelling, and pre-processing of training data using OpenCV
‣ Continuously created improved neural networks using Caffe with Python
‣ Wrote top-level API to interface with controller board firmware commands
‣ Maintained and updated kiosk robot backend logic using Scala with Akka actors
‣ Maintained and updated kiosk GUI using Typescr*pt, R*act, Play, Lift, jQuery, HTML, and CSS
‣ Other technologies used include Jenkins, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Docker

### Project Manager and Developer @ Apatite to Zircon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Claremont, California, United States
As a part of the Harvey Mudd College Computer Science Clinic Program, I led a team of four senior CS majors in a project for a small Idaho-based geology company.
‣ Managed meeting minutes, agendas, presentations, and communication with company liaisons
‣ Developed the GUI for a benchmarking framework to assess the team’s vision algorithms
‣ Presented results in Prague at a poster session for Goldschmidt2015, an international geochemistry conference

### Computer Science Grader & Tutor @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Claremont, CA
During my time as a student at Mudd, I held various grading and tutoring positions. I have:
‣ Provided support for Intro to Computer Science, Principles of Computer Science, and Algorithms
‣ Held twice-weekly walk-in tutoring hours in the student computer labs
‣ Assisted with grading and providing feedback on weekly assignments

### Computer Science Research Assistant @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Claremont, CA
I contributed to multiple summer projects across the CS department:
‣ Coordinated a workshop for middle school teachers on the NSF-funded "MyCS" curriculum
‣ Developed the curriculum for an introductory robotics course for a local community college
‣ Redesigned grading guidelines and documentation for Mudd's introductory CS course
‣ Programmed a camera-outfitted NERF launcher to identify and follow an indicated target

### Software Engineer Intern @ Intuit
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, California
My internship focused on creating internal management plug-ins and services for the the QuickBooks Online team. My responsibilities included:
‣  Developing REST endpoints and data access object classes for an Atlassian JIRA gadget
‣  Periodically refactoring project codebase to enforce functional design and maintainability
‣  Following the Scrum iterative agile software development model

### Assistant Instructor @ Galileo Learning
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Tiburon, CA
My role as an assistant instructor for Galileo Summer Quest (5th-8th grade) involved: 
‣ Learning curriculum for Lego Robotics, Web Design, and Go-Kart Building classes
‣ Supporting the lead instructor in classroom management and curriculum preparation
‣ Leading games and developing curriculum for smaller groups of campers during PM Care

### Product Manager Intern @ Intuit
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Claremont, CA (Remote)
Myself and a team of 3 others were tasked with "revolutionizing how small businesses accept credit cards." During this internship, we:
‣ Conducted customer interviews and surveys to inform product direction
‣ Designed the minimum viable product interface for both iPhone and desktop
‣ Presented development process and product pitch to a board of senior executive directors


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22