Summary
Karina Naranjo is a Latinx software engineer and educators-turned-makerpace lead with 9 years of experience building user-centered systems and community technology programs in the Bay Area. She blends hands-on technical work—AWS-backed backend improvements, lambda layers, and test automation—with program design that measurably increased laptop distribution, reduced application backlogs, and boosted attendance. Comfortable leading teams and operations from classroom curriculum to large-scale logistics, she has a track record of translating user research into infrastructure that improves database accuracy and the end-user experience. Passionate about fintech and nonprofits that close opportunity gaps, she advocates for equitable access to digital skills and has won an AWS Demo Day prize for an Alexa skill addressing global social goals. Detail-oriented and data-driven, she pairs marketing instincts for targeted campaigns with technical chops to ship reliable solutions. Based in Palo Alto, she’s actively pivoting toward product management to combine her product sensibility with engineering and community impact.
9 years of coding experience
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Eastside College Preparatory School
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at Notre Dame de Namur University
Candidate Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Candidate Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at Sonoma State University
English, Spanish