Katie Poa

Katie Poa

Katie Poa

Software Engineer

A bright, positive, impact-driven Fullstack Software Engineer in San Francisco Bay Area seeking diverse growth opportunities in Software Engineering. I love being challenged and enriched by various perspectives and approaches to problems, and get excited by the satisfaction of tangible results!

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Experience

RentableSoftware Engineer - Rentable Marketplace

2022 — 2022

2022 — 2022

Careers page redesign https://www.rentable.co/careers

HTML Sitemaps https://www.rentable.co/us

Reviews on property pages redesign

RentableSoftware Engineer - Apartment IQ

2021 — 2022

2021 — 2022

Apartment IQ Redesign - Sidebar Search, Hide Columns Dropdown, Units Table Toggles, Table name property links

Personal ProjectsSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2021

Personal ProjectsPokéGacha - React, CSS, Styled Components, Node.js/Express, MongoDB/mongoose

2020 — 2020

2020 — 2020

Integrated Pokémon API endpoints to generate queries from user input

Implemented random selection for 18 types upon button-click functionality

Personal ProjectsTopTable | Photo Gallery component- React, Node.js/Express, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Docker, AWS

2020 — 2020

2020 — 2020

NGINX, New Relic, k6

Scaled up the backend of a server to handle 10 million restaurant records and 45 million photo records

Compared PostgreSQL (RDBMS) and Cassandra (NoSQL) query times, stress tested service and proxy on k6 using New Relic

Implemented NginX load balancer and 3 AWS EC2 t2.micro instances to achieve ~600 requests per second

Education

Hack Reactor

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Phillips Exeter Academy

High School Diploma