Karen Olson
Senior Software Engineer at First American
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKaren Olson is a senior full-stack engineer in Chicago with five years of software experience and a rare background in special education that informs her collaborative, user-focused approach to product design. She has shipped full-stack Java, Spring, TypeScript, and React systems, refactored multi-account AWS infrastructure with Terraform, and maintained 100% uptime through monitoring and observability tooling. At 8th Light she helped reduce homeowners’ refinance wait times by seven days and led the decoupling and transfer of multiple AWS accounts and GitLab repositories to enable an acquisition. Currently exploring AI and DevOps, she quickly ramps on new technologies and blends disciplined engineering practices with a strong emphasis on stakeholder communication and accessibility rooted in her clinical experience.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, PSYCHOLOGY, with distinction, Bachelor of Arts, PSYCHOLOGY, with distinction at University of MichiganCertificate, Full-Stack Software Development, Certificate, Full-Stack Software Development at Flatiron SchoolMaster of Arts, Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist, magna cum laude, Master of Arts, Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist, magna cum laude at Western Michigan University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
tac6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
echo6
terraform6
echo-server6
solid-principles4
elixir3
docker3
cli-app2
functional-programming2
cli2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
karen-olson/Serververse
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
An echo server created for educational purposes.
Contributions:16 reviews, 105 commits, 28 PRs in 2 months
echo-serverdockerechoeducational-purposes
karen-olson/elixir-tic-tac-toe
Jul 2022 - Nov 2023
Elixir "translation" of a Ruby CLI game used to compare and contrast OOP with functional programming while practicing test-driven development.
Contributions:5 reviews, 11 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 4 months
toeelixirtacticcli
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