Cathy Kwok

Built and scaled a 31-engineer applied GenAI organization across two teams — exploratory agentic developer tooling and the Pippin documentation platform.

• Personally owned hiring across two teams that grew from a combined 16 to 31 engineers: screened 200+ candidates, ran 50+ phone screens, and hired 15+ engineers, redesigning the interview loop into three stages with a collaborative work-sample exercise
• Own product vision and strategic roadmap across three GenAI tools, partnering with principal engineers and product leads to align infrastructure investment with the org's AI-native strategy
• Team ranked top in a ~2,000-engineer org on normalized deployments

Led a 12-person website engineering team delivering consumer experiences to 300M+ monthly users on imdb.com.

• Directed a multi-year website modernization initiative driving 30%+ user growth through incremental, data-informed customer experience improvements
• Implemented multilingual URL architecture, improving international SEO performance and expanding global organic reach
• Led cross-team technical readiness across all 15 IMDb engineering teams for major film and TV award season launches — the platform's highest-traffic annual events

Built and led a 7-engineer cross-functional team delivering secure authentication and authorization workflows across Android, iOS, and Web.

• Delivered secure authentication and authorization workflows across Android, iOS, and Web for 10M+ international customers
• Partnered directly with trust, safety, compliance, and privacy functions to maintain zero-compromise secure access controls

Led a 9-person frontend team maintaining aws.amazon.com and built an analytics library adopted across the company.

• Led a 9-person team building and maintaining frontend components on aws.amazon.com, serving 100M+ monthly visitors globally
• Developed authoring tools adopted by thousands of internal content creators, streamlining content publishing workflows
• Built an analytics and targeting integration library adopted by 100+ internal and external Amazon websites

Built and led a 6-person team developing fulfillment tools supporting the Amazon Fresh grocery launch across 7+ countries.

• Built and led a 6-person team developing inbound fulfillment tools for Prime Now and Amazon Fresh fulfillment centers
• Partnered cross-functionally on outbound pick tools for the Amazon Fresh grocery store launch across 7+ countries and 100+ fulfillment centers

Led a cross-team project adding variable-weight item support to the Prime Now Android app.

• Led a cross-team project adding variable-weight item support to the Prime Now Android app (1M+ downloads)
• Developed Search and Browse features enhancing the customer shopping experience

Android app development for Hiya, following the company's rebrand from Whitepages Caller ID.

• Continued Android development on the caller ID app through its transition from Whitepages Caller ID to Hiya

Android app development for Whitepages Caller ID and Mr. Number.

• Built and maintained Android features across Whitepages Caller ID and Mr. Number

An internal AI documentation platform I took from a community side project to a resilient, enterprise-tier tool used by roughly 125K monthly active users.

• Monthly active users: 125,000+ · Daily active users: 40,000+ · MoM growth: 15–20%

Combined major spanning computer science and biology.