Kaitlin Schaer
Senior Software Engineer II at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaitlin Schaer is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure and platforms, currently designing Etsy’s internal development platform for GCP. Blending a BFA in Physical Computing from Carnegie Mellon with deep DevOps and product engineering experience, she approaches system resiliency and maintainability with a designer’s creativity and a practitioner’s rigor. She’s shipped tooling and processes across startup and scale environments at Fabric and Etsy, reducing friction for engineering teams and enabling service development outside monoliths. Primarily coding in Go and Node.js/TypeScript, she also has hands-on experience in C++, Python, Java, Unity, and AR prototypes from an arts-focused internship. Known for solving knotty technical and process problems with empathy, she pairs technical craft with an eye for developer experience. Based in New York, she brings a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that bridges art, systems engineering, and developer productivity.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Physical Computing, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Physical Computing at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (34)
3d-secure7
datadog7
flowtype6
higher-kinded-types6
google-pay6
typescript-generics6
runner6
typescript6
pix6
javascript6
sepa6
apple-pay5
payment-request-api5
payment-methods5
rocket5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kschaer/poseToThree
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
kschaer/actions-metrics-otlp
Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
GitHub Actions performance metrics & OTLP
Contributions:4 releases, 18 PRs, 40 pushes in 11 months
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