Caitlin Westerfield
Software Engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCaitlin Westerfield is a software engineer with nine years of experience building education-focused products, currently shaping learning tools at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. She led an eight-engineer effort to produce an in-platform Readiness Checks pre-assessment and helped integrate student support profiles and recommendation features that surface interventions directly in lesson plans. Her background spans accessibility work, handwriting recognition for math input, and machine learning for low-resource language translation from roles at Yale and internships at AT&T. Caitlin combines hands-on engineering with policy-minded data analytics (MS in Data Analytics and Policy from Johns Hopkins), reflecting a commitment to using technology to narrow equity gaps in education. A practical builder who also has campaign and team leadership experience, she pairs product-driven engineering with operational fluency and a knack for automating impactful workflows.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Religious Studies, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Religious Studies at Yale UniversityMobile Software Development, Mobile Software Development at AIT-BudapestEvanston Township High School (ETHS)
Github Skills (5)
haven9
style-dictionary8
python6
react6
testing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CMWesterfield16/CMWesterfield16.github.io
Jun 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:135 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
Running-App/Map-Run-Website
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:60 PRs, 44 pushes, 52 branches in 11 days
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