Katya Potapov
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKatya Potapov is a software engineer with nine years of experience building secure, scalable backend and data platforms, currently a Senior Software Engineer at Floodbase developing GCP-based pipelines and tooling to quantify flood risk and speed disaster response. A University of Waterloo graduate with a specialization in human-computer interaction and a minor in cognitive science, she uniquely blends security engineering expertise from Datadog and Abnormal Security with human-centered prototyping work. Her background includes designing large-scale ingestion and Kafka systems, deploying automated cloud-security enforcers, and creating production-ready prototypes informed by user studies. Selected for the Students On Ice Climate Action Cohort, she leads community-focused climate projects that bring technical rigor and user empathy to resilience and adaptation efforts.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
3B Exchange Term, 3B Exchange Term at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate InstituteHonours Bachelor of Mathematics, Honours Bachelor of Mathematics at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (33)
hugo9
datadog9
documentation8
notebooks8
mitre-attack8
portable8
jupyter-notebook6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
rasters6
python6
fastai5
javascript4
data-science4
multidimensional4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
katyapotapov/vimrc
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
katyapotapov/katyapotapov.github.io
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 49 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 10 months
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