Cat Johnson
Senior Frontend Engineer at Khan Academy
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCat Johnson is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 11 years in tech, currently building accessible Math & Science learning components at Khan Academy after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft. She specializes in React web components and accessible technology, combining hands-on implementation with advocacy and education to reduce accessibility bugs across teams. Cat has experience scaling internal APIs, component libraries, and CI/CD pipelines, and she mentors engineers and works to reduce bias in hiring. Based in Seattle, she writes and speaks about inclusive web applications and believes deeply in using technology to advance equity and social impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Informatics, Informatics, 3.68, BS in Informatics, Informatics, 3.68 at University of Washington
English, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
testing9
angular8
react8
web-components8
vue8
webpack8
javascript8
react-native8
svelte7
vite7
typescript7
documentation7
html7
frontend6
ui-components6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
awilliambauer/practicum
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Practicum is a software project that is an interactive, web-based tool which teaches introductory CS topics. It was created to help any student taking the intro class and carefully explains the necessary computer science terms and concepts.
Contributions:48 commits in 1 month
sciencecssjavascriptweb-basedintroductory
microsoft/fluentui
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
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