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Hi! I'm Emilie.
You probably know me as Kewbish. I'm a student and software developer, especially passionate about the web, distributed systems, and human-computer interaction. I focus on Web-based technologies, extending them to accelerate development and integrating them to serve unique needs. My goal is to make software more resilient, effective for collaboration, and seamless.
Experience and Awards
☁️ Cloudflare
May - Aug. 2023
Intern on Cloudflare’s Queues team. I added debugging features for Queues to the Cloudflare dashboard, which had a feature conversion rate of 50+%. I also performed service-wide migrations with Kubernetes and Helm, introduced E2E testing to the Queues frontend UI with Cypress, and created Grafana dashboards to track feature usage metrics.
👩🔬 UBC D-Lab
Jan. - Apr. 2023
Research assistant under Professors Dongwook Yoon, Ivan Beschastnikh, and Cleidson de Souza. I explored the characterization and identification of software engineering workflow types via network analysis, writing visualization scripts and queries in Python and Neo4j for the quantitative aspects of analysis.
⠕ Replit
May - Aug. 2022
Intern on Replit’s Workspace team. I worked alongside another intern to own an end-to-end migration of the GitHub import flow to Nix. Our work sped the flow up 2x and made Replit’s import tool twice as fast than even Microsoft’s GitHub Codespaces product. I also worked on a visual configuration editor for .replit files.
🔬 Summer Research School
Jul. - Aug. 2021
Attended the prestigious Summer Research School in Bulgaria. There, a group of forty Bulgarian and international students pursue a research topic of their choice for three weeks, ultimately developing a formal paper and defending their findings with a presentation. Under the guidance of Ms. Pressiana Marinova, I worked on an inquiry project on probablistic primality testing and the analysis of a probablistic AKS variant. Read the paper or view source code.
🏆 Google Code-in
Dec. 2019
In 2019, I was a Google Code-in winner, under Liquid Galaxy. For two months, I completed many open source tasks, and eventually won the competition. I’m one of Canada’s ten winners to date and the youngest Canadian winner. As well: I was the youngest winner in 2019. Pretty cool.
🌎 Liquid Galaxy
Since Feb. 2020
Intern at Liquid Galaxy, a Google-backed open source organization focused on interactive, immersive geographical displays. There, I develop documentation, webinar screencasts, and various other media, such as blog posts and installation tutorials. During summer 2020, I acted as a trainee mentor in several GSoC projects, as well as testing them.
💸 Grant For The Web Hackathon Winner
May - Jun. 2020
Won the Grant For The Web Hackathon under the category Creative Catalysts, hosted by Dev.to, Mozilla, Coil, and Creative Commons. Created a revenue-sharing library from vanilla JS.
🐋 vhHacks
Sep. 2020 - May 2021
Team member at vhHacks, the Vancouver High School Hackathon Association. I’m currently working on several Learn Day workshops and developing fun tooling for our 2021 hackathon.
🍁 Canada Learning Code
Oct. 2019 - Jun. 2021
Teen Ambassador at Canada Learning Code, a national organization reaching out to bring tech to women, girls, LGBTQ+ members, and focusing on making tech inclusive to all. There, I participate in team-building leadership activities, and learned effective mentorship skills.
📚 Vancouver Public Library
Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2021
Teen Advisory Member at the Vancouver Public Library, the local library serving Vancouver community members. There, I work to organize youth events, purchase youth books, provide feedback on programs, and attend biweekly youth meetings.
Currently studying at: UBC
The University of British Columbia is one of the world's leading science universities. There, I'm a third-year pursuing an Honours Degree in Computer Science from the Faculty of Science.
There, I:
- am one of the ten 2021 Schulich Leader Scholarship recipients at the school. The Schulich Leader Scholarships are Canada's most prestigious STEM scholarship, valued at between $80k-100k CAD. Selected from over 1500 nominees across Canada, 100 scholarships are awarded nationally.
- am Vice-President Academic at the UBC Computer Science Student Society. I lead the team of webmasters as well as a team of academic officers, working to improve digital and academic experiences for students.