# Kayla L.

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kaylal

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer, Workspace AI Platform @ Google
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States
• Building GenAI Platform Infrastructure for Google Workspace

### Software Engineer, Managed Kafka Connect @ Google
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer, AI/ML @ Fathom
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
• Work on Fathom's AI-driven medical coding platform. Drive MLOps, build and scale ML pipelines. Ingest, parse, and transform millions of historical patient records, deploying high-performance models across medical specialities for live production data.

### Software Engineer, Cloud Pub/Sub @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
• Work on Cloud Pub/Sub team supporting low latency async messaging service at scale for streaming analytics data pipeline ingestion & distribution

• Drive design discussions and privacy team collaborations to improve upon reducing data exfiltration risk for internal teams using Pub/Sub

• Onboard internal Pub/Sub users to Cloud Pub/Sub by closing feature gaps. Extend Pub/Sub push endpoint protobuf config options for internal user customization.

• Implement raw payload delivery across HTTP, RPC, and Webhook path to improve efficiency of receiving published messages vs. JSON parsing

• Implement continuous monitoring prober for C++ streaming pull client library

### Teaching Assistant, 15-122 Principles of Imperative Computation @ Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Teach 5 semesters of weekly labs and recitations to 60+ students, lead review sessions, and hold office hours to support a course of 500+ students with C programming and conceptual understanding of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis 

Summer '19, Fall '19, Spring '20, Fall '20, Spring ‘22

### Software Engineering Intern, M365 Global Sign Up @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States
• Work on Microsoft 365 Global Market Sign Up Team. Build feature in React for business customers to bring their own domain during M365 signup experience

### Software Engineering Intern, Cloud Spanner @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Work on Google Cloud Spanner Team. Build COPY support into Spanner-PostgreSQL Adapter (PGAdapter), a MITM proxy, to bulk load PostgreSQL client data into Spanner with JDBC Mutation API

• Implement PostgreSQL wire protocol for CopyInResponse, CopyData, CopyDone, and CopyFail and support COPY data at scale beyond Spanner limits of 20,000 mutation / 100MB commit size with batch commits

### Software Engineering Intern, Data Engineering Platform @ Datadog
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
• Work on Data Engineering Infra Team. Provide data processing Kubernetes platform support running batch Spark jobs through Luigi data pipeline

• Build EC2 instance type sizing selection models for choosing most cost efficient instance types based on historic memory and vCPU usage data

### Software Engineering Intern, Search Suggestions @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
•  Work on Google Search Suggests Team. Design and implement full-stack Custom Search web app with Knowledge Panel suggestions and user ratings for coding related queries.

• Construct and cache panel content server-side in Java with Google Custom Search API. Render content dynamically with JSP and send client-side GET/POST user ratings with async Fetch API and DOM manipulation with JavaScript.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Biomotivate
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Develop backend using Firebase Cloud Functions to call Fitbit/various health data providers’ REST APIs to retrieve data and save them to Firestore database for ML training used by addiction treatment centers

### Research Assistant, CREATE Lab @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Design Android app to teach pre-K students emotion control and self-calming with interactive breathing and stress relieving exercises through the app interface

### Research Assistant, Transformative Learning Technologies Lab @ Stanford University Graduate School of Education
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Stanford, California
• Research augmented reality applications in education. Analyze effectiveness of various technological learning environment


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Additional Major: Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University

### Stanford Online High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kaylaleung
- GitHub: http://github.com/kaylaleung/

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Last updated: 2026-03-30