Katherine Maack Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

I am now a docs wrangler.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Backend python services for a home interior customization app.Django, Vultr, postgres

Recovered from burnout, became HAM radio certified, went on a pilgrimage, donated a kidney, volunteered with Team Rubicon to help re-settle folks from Afghanistan into Oregon, took a 2-day NOLS wilderness first-aid class, transitioned to veganism, became a capoeirista.

Portland, Oregon Area

More backend team shenanigans. My stuff still ingests via kafka and pukes it out the other end, generally intact. Now I work with:* Lots of services that need to aggregate, checkpoint, and restore state for large quantities of data.* The streaming system and data which powers part of our alerts pipeline. When my team's stuff breaks, our customers notice.

Portland, Oregon Area

Backend service team shenanigans. We ingest NR entity metadata via Kafka then transform, store, and produce that data to downstream consumers on the order of millions of messages per minute. Tier 1 services. (when our stuff breaks, our customers know in minutes)Tech Stack: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, Netty, Docker, Jenkins.

Portland, Oregon Area

Later work:Worked on a 5-engineer team to expand functionality for "New Relic Diagnostics", a Golang-based CLI tool that gathers end-user system information to determine supportability of a customer environment and any troubleshooting steps that may assist a customer. * Built tasks that automated troubleshooting issues related to the Java Agent product*.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Updated users to latest OS, diagnosed and treated slower machines, improved multi-machine integration, repaired connectivity issues, performed data recovery

Kelley Engineering Center, Corvallis, OR

Remote and on-site maintenance of desktop and laptop machines in Kelley Engineering Center. Push large-scale orders of replacement machines using Symantec Ghost and Microsoft SCCM. Diagnose and repair electrical equipment for students and staff, not limited to computers. Monitored latency and congestion on-campus. Stress testing before rolling out new.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Application development with BarrettHand and WAM arm using ROS (Robot Operating System) and the C programming language for Drs. Ravi Balasubramanian and Cindy Grimm. Used OpenRave to experiment with visualized collision detection. Programmed object-grasping game in C++ for users which stored information on successful grasps created by users for robotic.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Worked in Computer Vision Lab under supervision of Professor Sinisa Todorovic. Used video annotation tool to record object movement. Aided in research for following studies: (1) Cost-Sensitive Top-down/Bottom-up Inference for Multiscale Activity Recognition and (2) Probabilistic Event Logic for Interval-Based Event Detection; both funded by DARPA

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Developed a virtualization lab for students using Virtual Box as the primary tool. Collaborated with representatives in business as well as computer science; built lab to be understandable and engaging for both parties. Set up for use with Win XP and Ubuntu 11.10

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Member of the Intel Learning Company (ILC), a joint project by the Intel Corporation and Oregon State University's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Built and experimented with OSWALDs, Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device, and installed and experimented with MEEGO, an open-source, Linux-based OS project primarily for.

Portland, Oregon Area

Improved and maintained company website. Created and printed out documents, and organized guests for company radio show. Created and coded bi-weekly mass emails for clients. Met and spoke with company representatives from Lamar, the Portland Business Journal, and PostCardMania for improved physical advertising. Headed online marketing and social networking.

Portland, Oregon Area

Advertise, chop, transport, and sell cords of firewood to locals

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Applied Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Intel Learning Company (ILC), National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), Drs. Yue & Eugene.