Grace Kasahara
Software Engineer 2 at Best Buy
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrace Kasahara is a Software Engineer 2 based in Minneapolis with 8 years of experience building developer-focused tooling and internal platforms that accelerate engineering velocity. At Best Buy she reshaped a Backstage-based developer portal and drove resiliency and performance improvements—reducing downtime and cutting catalog ingestion from hours to seconds—while automating repository scaffolding and CI/CD to shrink onboarding from days to minutes. She brings a full-stack toolkit (TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes/Helm) and a pragmatic obsession with automation, from GitHub Actions and Jenkins pipelines to custom CLIs. With a background in psychology and teaching, she combines strong user empathy and mentorship skills with technical rigor, often surfacing usability pain points and converting them into automated solutions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Clinical Psychology, 4.0, Master’s Degree, Clinical Psychology, 4.0 at Minnesota State University, MankatoBachelor's degree, Psychology, 3.63, Bachelor's degree, Psychology, 3.63 at St. Olaf CollegeFull Stack Software Engineering Certification, Full Stack Software Engineering Certification at Prime Digital Academy
Github Skills (8)
infrastructure7
microservices6
dx4
react4
translation4
backstage3
service-catalog3
nextjs3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sparksong/YUZEN
Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
Repository to update YUZEN Translation website to be more modern using React / Next JS.
Contributions:13 reviews, 34 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 4 months
next-jsreactreact-nextreact-next-jstranslation
Check-And-Connect/Trainer-Tracker
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:48 PRs, 55 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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