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paulina chametka

software engineer

paulinachametka@gmail.com / linkedin / github / Toronto, ON

01 experience

Senior Consultant

  • Built backend services for a generative-AI human capital tool — security testing, evaluation workflows, and production readiness.
  • Led enhancements to an RFP management web app, including a PostgreSQL migration and front-end work in React and Flask.
  • Developed a generative-AI app querying 4M+ structured entries via SQL, using Gemini and RAG to improve data accessibility.

Automation Engineer

  • Enhanced an AI-driven Rasa chatbot in Python to automate networking-query responses, reducing team workload via self-serve answers.
  • Built a patch-tracking tool (HTML, CSS, Flask, SQLAlchemy) that surfaces upcoming patches and notifies users when they're available.

Systems Analyst

  • Worked with stakeholders to develop requirements, documentation, test plans, and specifications aligned with goals and timelines.
  • Led analysts and developers through a successful Agile sprint as Scrum Master, tracking work in Jira.

Research Assistant

  • Ran user studies on social media's influence on hiring, accessibility for people with visual impairments, and digital identity adoption.
  • Collected data from 50+ participants, performed thematic analysis, and contributed to privacy and social-equity research.

02 publications

Security & Privacy Perceptions of Mental Health Chatbots

  • Led a 180-participant study on willingness to disclose to and trust mental health chatbots (adopters vs. non-adopters).
  • Published in IEEE and presented at the 20th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust.

03 education

B.Sc. Computer Science, Management & Business

  • GPA: 3.85 / 4.0
  • Scholarships: Entrance ($16,000), Stanley Black & Decker Academic ($3,000), and the Tracey & Siva Ananmalay Scholarship in Computer Science ($1,020).

04 skills

PythonJavaJavaScript C#SQL
AzureAWSGCP BedrockLambdaBigQuery PostgreSQL
ReactFlaskPlotly Dash PytestGitPostman SwaggerJiraConfluence