Emily Kapor-mater is a Senior Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and modernizing legacy systems. She has led instructional programs and developer teams, taught full-stack JavaScript, and driven ground-up rewrites—from Rails JSON APIs and PostgreSQL backends to Angular, React, Gatsby, and serverless frontends. Comfortable in both product and teaching roles, she brings a user-centered approach informed by a background in classics and graduate humanities study, which surfaces in clear documentation and thoughtful design. Known on GitHub as a "full-stack battlebot and weird rabbi," she blends technical curiosity with a commitment to social positivity and justice.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Ancient Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity, MA, Ancient Culture, Religion, and Ethnicity at The University of British Columbia
BA, Classics, BA, Classics at Reed College
Certificate, Full-Stack JavaScript Development, Certificate, Full-Stack JavaScript Development at Code Fellows
English, American Sign Language, Hebrew, greek, ancient, Latin, Spanish
Contributions:40 commits, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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Emily Kapor-mater - Senior Engineer at QualityLogic