Katherine Vedder Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Worked on the team managing user authentication and authorization, including sign-in management using Okta and approval workflows for data publishing to specific audiences. Core backend code in Scala and Java with Postgres database.

Greater Seattle Area

Worked mainly in Typescript, designing and managing databases and workflows (MySQL, MongoDB, CouchDB) for ingressing and managing consumer-facing documentation on womens’ pregnancy and childcare health for mobile apps, on an almost fully-remote team distributed across the West Coast

Washington, Oregon, California

Solo hiked 2,652 miles over 3.5 months from the Canadian border to the Mexican border along the Pacific Crest Trail. Skills include:- eating the same thing every day- finding a good camp spot- recognizing when it's going to rain- waking up before the sun and going to bed after it

Seattle

Implemented a new search platform backed by Elasticsearch, written in Scala with ingress pipeline in PythonDesigned and documented APIs used both internally and externally to interface with the search service Automated previously manual processes such as monthly maintenance windows and Elasticsearch schema migrations (Python/shell script)Contributed to the team-wide migration from self-hosting on physical servers to AWS Acted as a liaison between teams within and outside of… Show more Implemented a new search platform backed by Elasticsearch, written in Scala with ingress pipeline in PythonDesigned and documented APIs used both internally and externally to interface with the search service Automated previously manual processes such as monthly maintenance windows and Elasticsearch schema migrations (Python/shell script)Contributed to the team-wide migration from self-hosting on physical servers to AWS Acted as a liaison between teams within and outside of Engineering Contributed to the frontend Ruby/Rails, Angular, React, and Elixir codebases Show less

Computational Linguistics MS

Greater Seattle Area

Wrote nightly web scrapers keep language models up to date Set up a StackOverflow-like Q&A tool (Django/Python) for offsite language contractors, reducing the time the annotation team spent answering individual questions and allowing contractors to answer each others' questions Created web-based statistics reporting and visualizations to help with contractor management Worked on building up and maintaining a MySQL database of human-annotated utterances for model training, as well as… Show more Wrote nightly web scrapers keep language models up to date Set up a StackOverflow-like Q&A tool (Django/Python) for offsite language contractors, reducing the time the annotation team spent answering individual questions and allowing contractors to answer each others' questions Created web-based statistics reporting and visualizations to help with contractor management Worked on building up and maintaining a MySQL database of human-annotated utterances for model training, as well as ETL pipelines between teams Managed ~30 remote annotation contractors, leading weekly guideline review meetings Created several domain-specific spelling correctors/data cleaners Show less

- Developed an in-house translation management system for our software localization.- Created and contributed to SMS language models for several languages, including Finnish, Korean, Kazakh, and Urdu.- Designed usable keyboard layouts for the various languages adapted to a mobile phone’s screensize limitations.

Master'S Degree, Computational Linguistics

Ba, Linguistics, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa

Sprachwissenschaft/Linguistics