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


📌 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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