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# Katelyn Ma

**Headline:** Professional profile
**Location:** Belize City, Belize District, BLZ

## About

Katelyn Ma is a full-stack engineer who builds and improves customer-facing products across the front end, back end, infrastructure, and production request path. Katelyn works with TypeScript, React, and Next.js on the front end, and with Node.js REST APIs and PostgreSQL on the back end. Her strengths include identifying real system bottlenecks rather than relying on assumptions, optimizing APIs and data models, refactoring legacy services, and improving reliability through fault isolation. At Moda CarShare, Katelyn optimized REST APIs and database models, reducing API latency by 30% and supporting reliable reservations. In Collabrio work, she traced performance issues across the full request path to find the actual bottleneck in conversational AI. Katelyn also refactored legacy backend components and improved fault isolation, reducing production regressions by 25%. She has deployment experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS or Azure, and is motivated by hands-on engineering roles where she can own features end to end and solve real customer problems.

## Highlights

- Reduced API latency by 30% at Moda CarShare by optimizing REST APIs and database models.
- Improved reliable reservations at Moda CarShare through API optimization work.
- Refactored legacy backend components and improved fault isolation, reducing production regressions by 25%.
- Identified the actual bottleneck in conversational AI by examining the full request path in Collabrio work rather than relying on assumptions.
- Builds across the full stack with TypeScript, React, and Next.js on the front end and Node.js REST APIs and PostgreSQL on the back end.
- Has deployment experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS or Azure.
- Delivers measurable user and performance improvements through end-to-end engineering ownership.

## FAQ

### What does Katelyn do?

Katelyn Ma is a full-stack engineer who delivers measurable user and performance improvements across front-end applications, backend services, databases, and deployment environments.

### What technologies does Katelyn use?

Katelyn works with TypeScript, React, and Next.js on the front end. On the back end, she works with Node.js REST APIs and PostgreSQL.

### What deployment and cloud experience does Katelyn have?

Katelyn has experience deploying software with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS or Azure.

### What did Katelyn accomplish at Moda CarShare?

At Moda CarShare, Katelyn optimized REST APIs and database models, achieving a 30% reduction in API latency. Her work also supported reliable reservations.

### What did Katelyn accomplish in her Collabrio work?

In Collabrio work, Katelyn examined the full request path to identify the actual bottleneck in conversational AI rather than making assumptions about the source of the problem.

### How has Katelyn improved system reliability?

Katelyn refactored legacy backend components and improved fault isolation, reducing production regressions by 25%.

### What are Katelyn's core engineering strengths?

Katelyn is strongest at diagnosing true bottlenecks across a system, optimizing REST APIs and database models, improving backend reliability, and working across the stack to deliver user and performance gains.

### What kind of work does Katelyn seek?

Katelyn is excited by hands-on engineering work in which she can own a feature end to end and solve real customer problems.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelynma

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