I'm Kay and I'm a Senior Software Engineer with a CS background. I love problem solving, puzzles, and leveraging my skills in DevOps, Software Engineering, and data analysis to build solutions that delight customers.

Experience

2020 — NowMicrosoftSenior Software Engineer

2020 — Now

Building custom tools, automation, and websites to help improve data integrity, create better user experiences, and drive secure business processes.

Coordinated a front end rewrite (moving from Angular to React) from design concept to launch in one quarter

Built automation that wrangles millions of rows of data on a daily basis to support secure development practices

Supporting cloud migrations and cloud first architectures along with promoting CI/CD best practices

2018 — 2019ScaleFluxApplications Engineer

2018 — 2019

San Jose, CA

· Responsible for various environmental scripting tasks to assist clients in drive setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting for CSS 1000 products

· Responsible for creating custom internal tools and scripts to improve work flow and efficiency

· Improve online file management for the AE team by creating a custom tool using a RESTful API. Led to an immediate time savings of 70%

· Provide benchmarking and performance analysis reports on a variety of metrics including PCIe block device performance as well as pre-defined test suites like ACT and YCSB

· Able to analyze and understand the benefits/impacts of host-based FTL on system performance using various PCIe block devices in applications including MongoDB, Hadoop, Aerospike, and OpenZFS

· Planned and implemented key demos on scaling performance gains for Flash Memory Summit 2018 and Xilinx Developer Forum 2018

Education

2017 — 2019

San José State University

Bachelor of Science - BS

2017 — 2019

2015 — 2017

Las Positas College

Associates in Computer Science

2015 — 2017