Summary
Karen Reeves is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience modernizing mission-critical systems and delivering full-stack Java solutions across retail, manufacturing, and data-centric organizations. She excels in data migration and integration work with diverse databases (Spanner, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, DB2), Unix/Linux automation, and performance tuning, and has led large modernization efforts replacing mainframe/CICS apps with modern Java/Spring and Angular frontends. At The Home Depot and Shaw Industries she has driven architecture, CI/CD automation (Ant, Jenkins, OpenShift), ESB services, and cross-team standards while mentoring engineers and coordinating complex production cutovers. Comfortable moving between hands-on coding, database design, and stakeholder-facing requirements, she combines deep systems knowledge with practical process improvements that reduce technical debt. A former biology and Spanish undergraduate turned MS in Computer Science, she brings a curious, multidisciplinary perspective to problem solving and systems design.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA Biology Spanish, BA Biology Spanish at University of Denver
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Colorado Technical University