Kaitlin Hipkin
Senior Software Engineer at Corsha
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolKaitlin Hipkin is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend systems in Go, currently focused on backend engineering at Corsha and actively seeking Golang backend roles. She brings strong cloud infrastructure experience from multiple roles at Google, where she shipped features for Google Cloud Filestore, Deployment Manager, and Open Service Broker implementations. Comfortable across the stack, Kaitlin has also contributed meaningful front-end improvements to the popular open-source Habitica project, demonstrating attention to user experience in addition to systems work. Her background blends rigorous CS training with cognitive science study, and she has a history of reducing technical debt and refactoring large codebases to improve maintainability and developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.670, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.670 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyCognitive Science, Cognitive Science at Universität OsnabrückHigh School, High School at Cranford High School
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
css10
vue10
html10
vue-jsx10
habits9
bit9
nodes8
express-ts8
nodejs8
vector6
wpf6
mongodb6
prolog6
coordinates6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HabitRPG/habitica
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 14 PRs, 843 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kaitlin primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Habitica application. Their commits focused on implementing and improving the user interface, specifically for achievements, party functionalities, and profile pages. This includes adding new achievement images, modifying layouts, and incorporating counts to achievement badges, indicating a focus on enhancing user experience and visual presentation. They also corrected code and refactored certain parts of the codebase.
trackerexpressvuereactjsrole
rit-csc/csc_exam_reviews
Oct 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:164 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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