Cat Ball's Resume
Software engineer with backend development and SRE experience spanning over 8 years in the industry.
Currently located in California, Cat is open to relocation internationally.
- 📬 Email: resume {at} catball {dot} dev
- 📃 Printable resume: resume.catball.dev
- 🌎 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, US
Education
- B.S. Computer Science
- 2009 — 2013, University of Illinois
- M.S. Computational Linguistics
- 2022 — Present, University of Washington
Work Experience
Google
Site Reliability Engineer
Aug 2019 — Present
- Network control plane handling over 3TB/s of traffic from edge border routers to the Andromeda SDN hosted in our datacenters.
- Observability and alerting features for the [Maglev load balancer]((https://research.google/pubs/pub44824/) that processes all traffic ingress to Google.
- Safely load balance ~8M QPS of production traffic from legacy jobs to new jobs for a critical service as datacenter capacity becomes available.
- Design optimizations to probabilistic sampling algorithm, allowing stateless fault injection while serving over ~8M QPS.
- Design an autoregressive model of our service’s resource requirements to help enable automated capacity planning and prediction.
- Negotiated with US benefits team to provide travel coverage for trans people seeking healthcare, and resources for trans people impacted negatively by local legislation.
- Worked with Global Policy team to allocate funds for external trans NPOs, and to denounce transphobic policy.
- Provided consultation to IT and security teams to review new identification verification processes and policies.
Google
Software Engineer
Jan 2019 — Aug 2019
- Rewrite GSUtil, the Google Cloud Storage CLI tool, in Python 3 to comply with the latest standards and requirements.
- Parallelize integration testing, reducing pre-submit test times by 30x
Amazon
Software Engineer
Jun 2016 — Jan 2019
- An HR survey application to gather data to help improve workplace safety and reduce toxicity in teams.
- Java backend using Kafka to stream requests.
- Electron frontend for corporate desktop clients.
- A modest amount of C# for Electron to interface with a Windows service daemon.
Google
IT Residency Program
Jan 2015 — Jul 2016
- Develop and maintain support ticket routing software.
- Provide onsite and remote technical support to Googlers.
- Lead peer-driven programming courses.
Boeing
Software Engineer
Jan 2014 — Jan 2015
- Supply chain web application to forecast demand of parts and tools for aircraft manufacturing
- C#, ASP.Net, and Visual Basic
Illinois Department of Public Health
Intern Data Analyst & Developer
Apr 2013 — Jan 2014
- Develop Python scripts for EMR workflows.
- Manage EMR data ingress to Vaccines for Children RDBMS
- Digitize paper documents and ingest them into the RDBMS
University of Illinois
Helpdesk Support Technician
Jan 2011 — Apr 2013
- Provided in-person and remote technical support to students and staff at the University of Illinois helpdesk as a student worker.
