Summary
Kara Caputo is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with five years of product-focused engineering experience, currently building self-serve campaign tools on Ibotta’s Partner Network using React, Next.js, TanStack Query, and REST APIs. She brings a rare combination of small-business management and education background to product work, which helps her design intuitive workflows that replace manual processes and reduce operational overhead. Comfortable spanning front-end and back-end responsibilities, she’s shipped features that empower internal teams and clients to operate independently. Based in Islamorada, Florida, Kara pairs a disciplined learning mindset—she’s an avid language learner and brain-games enthusiast—with an outdoorsy, problem-solving spirit honed through rock climbing. Her trajectory from Turing School front-end training to senior engineering at a major rewards platform highlights rapid technical growth and a focus on practical, user-centered solutions.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Frontend Engineering, Frontend Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design
Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations and Affairs, Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations and Affairs at University of Colorado Boulder