# Kitty Fung > Staff Software Engineer at IBM Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kitty Software Engineer at IBM with interests in cloud, networking, backend programming, and empowering women to hack. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ IBM Jan 2022 – Present | San Jose, California, United States As a Staff Software Engineer at IBM, I am the Development and Test Lead for several projects in IBM's Information Management System (IMS). I received an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for IMS Transaction Orchestration in 2024 and 1st Place in our internal zHackathon in 2020. ### Software Engineer @ IBM Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States ### Founding Member & Head of Hacker Experience @ Womxn/Hacks Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Santa Barbara, California Area As the Head of Hacker Experience, I delegate a team to plan, organize, and fundraise for Board and Hackers’ experiences for UCSB’s first 36 hour all female-identifying hackathon. I am very grateful for being featured in this article! ### Cloud Engineering Intern @ Citi Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 As a Cloud Engineering intern, I developed and deployed a full stack containerized app that checks the overall cluster health and latencies between clusters in Citi OpenShift platforms in real time. I established an efficient and secure reactive monitoring approach for Citi Cloud Engineers to check OpenShift cluster statuses with a catered automated system. Utilized: Docker, OpenShift, Ansible, Node.js, Angular, HTML, CSS, Git, Bash, SSH, BitBucket, Confluence, JFrog Artifactory, Linux, Vim. ### Network Systems Intern @ UCSB Enterprise Technology Services Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Barbara, California As a Network Systems Intern, administer in mapping all of UCSB’s wireless access points (WAP) via VisualRF, assist in UCSB’s Campus WAP Replacement Project by preparing, installing, and processing over 1100+ access points, and help manage and organize WAPs virtually and physically. ### Citi's Early ID Leadership Program Technology Track Mentee @ Citi Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 As a participant of Citi's Early ID Leadership program, I received 5 week extensive technical training and mentorship from one of Citi's top engineers. ### Financial Coordinator @ Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Barbara, California Area SASE is a nonprofit networking organization that prepares and honors Asians in STEM for their success. As a financial coordinator, I reached out to companies for grants and collectively raised $20,000 for the 2018 SASE West Regional Conference. ### Member @ Data Science @ UCSB Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Barbara, California Area My most recent data science project analyzes the demographics and statistics of the UCSB Discord Server by creating a neural network to analyze each message sent for toxicity. I implemented python scripts including programs that counted the word frequencies, amount of toxic words, and nontoxic words in the chat and stores the data into separate .csvs. Additionally, I used Google Sheets API to transfer local .csv files to Google Drive, created R graphs that analyzed the toxicity of each message, and analyzed over 10,000 messages to mark toxic, nontoxic, or not applicable. ### Officer @ Women in Software and Hardware Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Santa Barbara, California Area WiSH is a community for females in STEM hosts internship, career workshops, teaches high school students engineering skills. As an officer, I managed social events for current WiSH members. ### Member @ Coders SB Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Santa Barbara, California Area As a member of Coders SB, I attend company related events such as Google Tech Talk, Microsoft Tech Talk, and Career Talk. ### Computer Science Tutor @ Private Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area As a computer science tutor, I taught college students how to create interest rate calculators and other related projects in C# and C++. ### President/Co-Founder @ George Washington High School Robotics Team Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco I lead a team of 70 students to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition Sacramento Regional. In six weeks, we designed, built, programmed, and tested our robot. We designed our robot using paper and pencil, programmed our robot through Java using Eclipse, built our robot using a FRC Rookie Basic Startup Kit and Rhino Tank Drive Module, and tested our robot using team-built obstacle courses. We have raised $22,460 in funding this year from sponsors including Facebook (~50%), Autodesk (~33%), George Washington High School Alumni, FIRST Robotics Competition, Intuitive Surgical, and individual sponsors from GoFundMe. In 2015, seven students and I founded the Robotics Team. I was elected as the Public Relations Leader and I created pamphlets, flyers, and planned major team events, such as the Kick-Off Party, FIRST Robotics Competition, and the End-of-the-Year Party. We raised +$15,000 in funding. ### Member @ Girls Who Code Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | George Washington High School, San Francisco I learned Python, and have programmed a basic Battleship simulation game in Codecademy using the language. I received an "A+" on the highest level of Girls Who Code's programming pre-test on the first attempt. I toured Airbnb and connected with Airbnb employees through the club as well. ### Mentee @ Minds Matter of San Francisco Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco I participated in Minds Matter, a volunteer-based, non-profit organization that focuses on providing mentorship for high achieving, low-income students in the Bay Area. The program entails a commitment of four hours every Saturday for three academic years (sophomore through senior year). As part of the program, I attended summer programs at Georgetown University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst. ### Student @ Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Georgetown University,Washington, DC I took a college-level programming course, “Introduction to Computer Science Using Ruby” and earned a B. This was my first time studying programming in a classroom setting as I had only self-studied through Codecademy prior. During the course, I coded a program that calculates and displays a percentage of sales revenue graph. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science UC Santa Barbara Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kifung - Website: https://kifung.github.io/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/kitty JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kitty/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22