Software Engineer
Kimberly Wu
🌱 Currently growing my knowledge in cybersecurity engineering.
💬 Let's chat! — kimberlywu [at] berkeley [dot] edu
🧸 Education
UC Berkeley, College of Engineering
Graduating May 2026
B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS)
Relevant Coursework
Clubs & Involvements
Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity (Social Chair, Publicity Chair)
UpSync Consulting (Technical Consultant)
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (Web Manager)
📌 Experiences
Microsoft
Summer 2025
Incoming Software Engineer Intern
AMD
Sep 2024 - Present
Software Engineer (Contract)
Designed and implemented a scalable backend infrastructure to manage multimodal data using React and backend APIs by developing a custom dashboard to display complex data visualizations and insights; allowed for real-time data access.
Engineered a data processing pipeline to handle diverse data types efficiently, performing validation and transformation.
EY (Ernst & Young)
Feb - May 2024
Cybersecurity Engineer (Contract)
Engineered and designed a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) platform to enhance threat detection capabilities and response efficiency; achieved a 75% accuracy improvement in anomaly detection rates.
Developed detection logic with embedded ML and deep learning algorithms using scikit-learn, Tensorflow, and PyTorch.
Analyzed large-scale open-source datasets using pandas, ensuring robust data cleaning and transformation.
Cerevox
Jun - Aug 2023
Software Engineer Intern
improved efficiency of structured data into structured text; deployed using Kubernetes/Azure by developing a data ingestion and normalization platform using Node.js, Fastify, Redis, Mongo, and Kafka.
introduced and implemented a seed coordination and flake ID generation service; enhanced traceability and monitoring of requests within the distributed platform.
scaled server to process 1M+ concurrent requests to acheive an apdex of 0.85 over thousands of requests.
✏️ Projects
PacketPath
Aug 2024 - Present
Python
Developed a distance vector routing protocol; enabled efficient packet forwarding on simulated network environments.
Designed and implemented packet validation and buffer handling logic to filter redundant packets, enhancing efficiency.
Built mechanisms for handling multi-hop routing and dynamic route adjustments in response to network changes; utilized advanced network simulation environments to test routing behaviors under various network conditions.
TraceRoute
Aug - Sep 2024
Python
Engineered a robust traceroute tool to efficiently map network paths; accurately identified intermediary routers between source and destination node across diverse network configurations—improving network diagnostics and monitoring.
Designed packet transmission/reception processes using Python sockets; ensured reliable & precise communication.
Integrated advanced parsing algorithms like IPv4, ICMP, and UDP headers to enhance the tool’s accuracy in interpreting packet data, determining route mappings, and reducing packet drop rates; tested on real-world networks.
Secure File Sharing System
Jul 2024
Go
Designed a file sharing and access control system using cryptographic techniques (RSA-OAEMP, HMACs, PRNGs, digital signatures) to ensure security of files and sharing actions; allows for bandwidth optimized sharing of file information.
Incorporated a secure communication channel for file invitations between users & access revocation system for owners.
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Oct 2024
C
Logism
Engineered and developed a fully functional CPU model by simulating digital circuits and logic components.
Integrated various CPU components including the ALU, registers, control unit, and memory interface, ensuring efficiency by implementing parallelism to enable simultaneous execution of multiple operations and optimize execution time.
✂️ Skills
Languages & Tools
Go
Python
Java
C/C++
Kubernetes
TypeScript
Kafka
Interests
Cybersecurity
Network Security
Backend
Cloud
Data Science
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