Kaitlyn Melton
Staff Software Developer - Backend Platform
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKaitlyn Melton is a Staff Software Developer specializing in backend platforms, currently building scalable systems at Hootsuite in Vancouver. With eight years at Hootsuite, she progressed from co-op and junior roles to Senior and now Staff, focusing on backend scalability, reliability, and legacy-platform migrations. She holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia and has a background in mentoring through her time as an undergraduate teaching assistant. Beyond coding, Kaitlyn enjoys ultimate frisbee, international relations, Dungeons & Dragons, technical theatre, and photography, bringing curiosity and teamwork to cross-functional projects. She is known for a practical, problem-solving mindset and the ability to translate complex requirements into robust backend solutions. Based in Vancouver, she bridges academic rigor with industry pragmatism, combining a love of learning with hands-on production impact.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (11)
sensu6
controller6
react4
api3
javascript3
rest-api3
rest3
k8s2
typescript2
swagger2
kubernetes2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
hootsuite/sens8
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Kubernetes controller for Sensu checks
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 1 branch in 4 months
controllerk8skubernetescheckssensu
kaitlyn-melton-hs/sens8
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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