Kaley Sullivan
Senior Software Engineer at Dandy
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaley Sullivan is a senior backend and platform engineer with a decade of experience building resilient infrastructure and payments systems for high-growth startups. She has a strong track record of shipping large-scale features—from sharding Webflow’s largest tables and hardening migration tooling to designing Wave Mobile Money’s Checkout API and business model that unlocked millions of users. At Etsy she led the GraphQL rollout and improved developer experience through tooling, documentation, and workshops, and earlier work shows deep experience in ETL, experimentation, and reducing tech debt. She combines hands-on coding with systems-level design and a knack for turning complex migration and compliance challenges into auditable, testable solutions. Based in New Orleans, she’s also driven culture and process improvements, including LGBTQIA+ advocacy in international contexts and introducing better project management practices. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and unusually adept at surfacing hard-to-find data issues before they affect customers.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at Yale UniversityComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Recurse Center
Github Skills (37)
socket-io9
websocket9
rotate8
javascript8
nodejs8
server7
multi-touch7
pan7
gestures6
pinch6
application-framework6
realtime6
conversations5
zooming5
snapping5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ksullivan2/neverToReturn
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 100 pushes, 11 branches in 8 months
in-progresspatrickgame
ksullivan2/simple_games
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 PRs, 90 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
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