# Summer Kitahara

> Software Engineer at Instagram

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

Software Engineer in NYC in product infrastructure who is passionate about building high quality apps. I received a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. For 4 years, I also represented CMU as the captain of the NCAA DIII Women's Golf Team.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2020 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Android engineer on Instagram Client Infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California

### Web Application Development (17-437) Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
Member of React Native core team.

### Web Application Development (15-437) Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Pittsburgh Area

### J2EE Web Application Development (08-672) Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Teach topics including  HTTP, databases, Object-Relation Mapping Tools, security, AJAX, and cloud deployment. Hold office hours and grade for 75 students.

### Software Engineer @ EnvoyNow
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, California
Lead Android developer for EnvoyNow, a startup for food delivery at 24 universities. Building app to emulate the iOS app and adding new features. 100+ downloads in first month. Improve algorithm to assign "Envoys" to customers.

### Social Media Specialist @ Business Golf Academy
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Manage the social media presence for BGA, which encourages women to use golf to advance their careers. Tripled Twitter followers and Facebook likes.

### Human-Computer Interaction Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
NavCog is a tool that incorporates sensors, computer vision, and crowdsourcing to help blind people move in indoor spaces. Make apps to target the crowdsourcing effort to create a place for the crowd to upload photos and label them later and to maintain and repair the Bluetooth Low Energy beacons.

### Human-Computer Interaction Institute Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Chorus is a web-based conversational assistant that crowdsources answers to users' questions.  Led 3-person mobile development team creating Android mobile and wear apps and an iPhone app that gets and posts information to and from a server, has text to speech and speech to text capabilities, and implements the Yelp Search and Yahoo APIs.  Made a natural language processor tool with a part of speech tagger and tokenizer.

### SAT Math Tutor @ Carnegie Pollak
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greenwich CT
Prepared a class of thirty high school students for the SAT Math section by reviewing geometry and algebra.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### High School
Rye Country Day School, Rye NY
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/summerkitahara
- Website: http://sumkit.github.io/
- GitHub: http://github.com/sumkit

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Source: https://flows.cv/summerkitahara
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Last updated: 2026-03-23