Summary
Kelsey Meranda is a versatile software engineer with roughly a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems across cloud, media, and security-focused domains. Currently at AWS on the SageMaker Canvas team, she focuses on post-training processes, model predictions, and generative AI workflows, bridging data science and production reliability. Previously at Twitch, she owned back-end services for VOD, clips, and copyright workflows, earning recognition as a security champion and mentoring colleagues, especially women entering tech. Her early career includes low-level work at Arxan on LLVM/clang integration and internships at Epic, NextEra, and Notre Dame, giving her a unique blend of systems thinking and ML-inspired problem solving. She holds a CS degree from the University of Notre Dame and is based in San Francisco, California.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
English, German