Summary
Cat Perry is a software engineer with eight years of experience building production-grade front-end systems and enterprise plugins, currently focused on open-source and commercial frontend work at Grafana Labs. Skilled in React, TypeScript, and React Native, she has driven incremental modernizations—introducing TypeScript into large codebases and establishing frontend guilds and coding standards to improve team practices. Her background spans full-stack Ruby on Rails and PHP projects, plus internal retail tools that handled thousands of daily transactions, reflecting strong product sensibility and attention to operational reliability. Earlier roles in editorial and digital media honed her cross-disciplinary collaboration, UX-minded thinking, and project leadership. Comfortable working across OSS and enterprise boundaries, she combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for shipping impactful, incremental migrations. Based in the United States, she brings a mix of newsroom rigor and engineering craft to complex frontend problems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Certificate, Software Engineering, Web Development, Software Engineering Certificate, Software Engineering, Web Development at New York Code + Design Academy
B.A., Environmental Studies, Social Sciences, B.A., Environmental Studies, Social Sciences at Oberlin College
Full-stack JavaScript Techdegree, Computer Software Engineering, Full-stack JavaScript Techdegree, Computer Software Engineering at Treehouse
English, French, German