Coinbase
Engineering Manager
Kate Gozde Aksay (She/Her)
Engineering Manager @coinbase. Prev VP of Eng @genius, EM @capsule, Founding Engineer @musae, Lead Developer @morgan Stanley, co-founder @salary-fairy
Engineering Manager @coinbase. Prev VP of Eng @genius, EM @capsule, Founding Engineer @musae, Lead Developer @morgan Stanley, co-founder @salary-fairy
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Experience
VP of Engineering
- Ran the engineering team at Genius.
- Grew the team from 2 engineers to a team of 10.
- Responsible for prioritization, goals and deliverables, introducing and maintaining... more team-wide processes, career growth of engineers, hiring and interviews.
- Lead development of products and tools to serve 100M+ monthly visitors and thousands of artists.
- Launched novel products such as Genius Live and Genius Home Studio.
- Worked with the CEO and the executive team to run the technology department while our CTO was on leave.
- Grew the team from 2 engineers to a team of 10.
- Responsible for prioritization, goals and deliverables, introducing and maintaining... more team-wide processes, career growth of engineers, hiring and interviews.
- Lead development of products and tools to serve 100M+ monthly visitors and thousands of artists.
- Launched novel products such as Genius Live and Genius Home Studio.
- Worked with the CEO and the executive team to run the technology department while our CTO was on leave.
Engineering Manager
- Managed a team of 10 Software & Data & Devops engineers
- Interviewed 200+ engineers and hired 30
- Created and executed a pipeline for onboarding, knowledge... more sharing and support of new hires
- Designed and implemented data models and APIs for Medications, Customer Profiles, Order Management, Inventory, Dispatch, and Delivery applications
- Delivered one of the firm’s most complex projects that involved cross-platform changes, cross-team collaboration, and significant data transformations
- Interviewed 200+ engineers and hired 30
- Created and executed a pipeline for onboarding, knowledge... more sharing and support of new hires
- Designed and implemented data models and APIs for Medications, Customer Profiles, Order Management, Inventory, Dispatch, and Delivery applications
- Delivered one of the firm’s most complex projects that involved cross-platform changes, cross-team collaboration, and significant data transformations
Founding Engineer
Built the coolest platform and marketplace for visual and performing artists.
- Implemented the API backend of Patron.
- Managed product roadmap, team goals, priorities,... more weekly sprints for a team of 10 designers and developers.
- Integrated Stripe API for two-sided marketplace payments, transactions, and payouts.
- Integrated Algolia API for search, Paperclip for image storage and manipulation, OAuth2 for authentication.
- Implemented the API backend of Patron.
- Managed product roadmap, team goals, priorities,... more weekly sprints for a team of 10 designers and developers.
- Integrated Stripe API for two-sided marketplace payments, transactions, and payouts.
- Integrated Algolia API for search, Paperclip for image storage and manipulation, OAuth2 for authentication.
Morgan Stanley
Lead Software Engineer
- Designed and developed applications for firm-wide identity management system replacement.
- Built auxiliary tools to enable multi-factor authentication in the firm.
-... more Designed and built an automated pipeline for home directory setup of new employees.
- Built auxiliary tools to enable multi-factor authentication in the firm.
-... more Designed and built an automated pipeline for home directory setup of new employees.
Employee
Projects
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Education
About
Achievements
Engineering Manager at Coinbase; built and ran multiple teams of 10-20 engineers, launched login.coinbase.com, worked under Platform, Cloud, Web3, Ecosystem organizations.
Head of Engineering at Genius; launched Genius Live and Genius Home Studio.
Engineering Manager at Capsule; launched order management and logistics services and tooling.
Built and marketed Salary Fairy, which served 17,000+ users.
Built and maintained identity management applications used by 90,000+ employees at Morgan Stanley.
Implemented very fast string comparison algorithms to align short DNA sequences in computer registers. Got published in Nature.
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
Skills
Locations
Q&A
What was the most impactful class you took in school?
Graph Theory
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
What words of advice would you give your younger self?
Be unreasonable.