Kara Luton
Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolKara Luton is an engineering manager with nine years of front-end experience who leads cross-functional teams at CrowdStrike, driving major UI overhauls and customer-facing policy workflows. She rose rapidly through engineering roles after transitioning from a career in music publicity and professional ballet, bringing uncommon strengths in communication, stakeholder management, and product-focused design. Kara has shipped tooling that changed team habits—a Slack PR reminder used by 300+ front-end engineers—and led projects that standardized a new design system across critical product pages. Technically grounded in JavaScript (Vue, Ember), Sass, Craft CMS and agile practices, she balances hands-on coding with coaching and delivery ownership. Based in Nashville, she co-organizes the Nashville Women Programmers meetup and mentors women entering tech, reflecting a strong commitment to community building and inclusion. Outside work she still follows the arts—attending ballets and concerts—and brings that creative perspective to user-centered front-end solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Engineering, Front End Engineering at The Iron YardBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Public Relations, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Public Relations at Belmont UniversityStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at Florence University of the Arts
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Github Skills (41)
open-source10
javascript9
ruby9
typescript9
rails9
react9
electron7
microsoft7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
npm-package7
editor7
http-request7
nodejs6
api6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
karaluton/awesome-dev-conferences
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
A curated list of various developer conferences in the USA
Contributions:32 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
openscienceconferences
karafulgum/bbbs-site
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:66 pushes, 9 branches in 20 days
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