Software Engineer — Based anywhere, building everywhere

Kimberly
Bautista.

Building engineering systems that scale people — not just code.

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I architect systems at scale — event-driven platforms, backend infrastructure, and developer tooling trusted by thousands of engineers. I find the high-leverage problems that sit at the intersection of architecture and engineering culture, and I build solutions that compound in value over time.

— Kimberly Bautista

01 — About

Kimberly Bautista

Passionate about building things that matter.

I'm a software engineer with 5 years of experience building the systems that engineering organizations depend on. From developer tooling, backend infrastructure, and to the kind of platform work that makes thousands of engineers quietly grateful (even if they don't know your name).

I spent years at LinkedIn designing and scaling the tools that power how engineers write, review, and ship code. My most recent work, a Code Ownership platform adopted by 5,000+ engineers, cut worst-case ownership validation from 15+ minutes to under 3 minutes. Turns out people really appreciate not waiting around.

When I'm not coding, you might find me exploring new programming languages, working on personal projects, making matcha, or going down some interesting internet rabbit hole (True Crime).

  • Python
  • Java
  • Flask
  • Kafka
  • REST APIs
  • GitHub Apps
  • Couchbase
  • MySQL
  • CI/CD
  • LLM Systems

02 — Projects

Things I've built.

001

Project Name One

A brief description of this project

  • React
  • Node.js
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002

Project Name Two

A brief description of this project

  • Python
  • API
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003

Project Name Three

A brief description of this project

  • JavaScript
  • CSS
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004

This Website

A clean, minimal personal portfolio site — hand-coded in HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS. Hosted on GitHub Pages.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
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03 — Experience

Where I've been.

  1. September 2023 — July 2025

    Senior Software Engineer

    LinkedIn

    Led the design and org-wide rollout of a Code Ownership platform adopted by 5,000+ engineers — reducing worst-case ownership validation in large monorepos from 15+ minutes to under 3 minutes. Defined technical strategy and a multi-quarter roadmap that aligned 100+ teams on standardized approval enforcement. Architected a flexible, directory-based ownership model supporting complex approval semantics across both monorepo and microservice orgs. Built Python/Flask backend services and REST APIs backed by Couchbase for high-throughput production traffic, and owned the GitHub App enforcing ownership policies on every pull request. Also built a Slack notification system to nudge reviewers (politely, but firmly).

  2. November 2019 — September 2023

    Software Engineer

    LinkedIn

    Worked on LinkedIn's migration from ReviewBoard to GitHub; a change that affected every engineer at the company and probably caused exactly one week of collective grumbling before everyone admitted it was better. Designed and developed custom GitHub Apps for the code review pipeline including CI pre/post-merge checks, custom validations, and the foundations of Code Ownership. Maintained GitHub Cloud Bridge, an intermediary service normalizing, filtering, and routing GitHub webhooks into on-prem Kafka events. Optimized webhook filtering and Kafka processing to improve scalability and reliability across the platform.

  3. 2015 — 2019

    Teaching Assistant

    University of Washington

    TAed CSE 373 Data Structures and CSE 415 Artificial Intelligence while completing a Mathematics degree. Helped hundreds of students understand recursion (at least once per student, and then again, and then one more time). One of those students later became a coworker and friend of mine at LinkedIn. I know this because I graded his final.

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04 — Contact

Let's
talk.

Have a project in mind or just want to connect? I was given the gift of gab — I'm always open to a good conversation.