Karly Nelson
Senior Software Engineer at Kusari
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarly Nelson is a senior full-stack engineer and designer with 11 years of experience blending UX, frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure to ship production systems rapidly. Currently focused on securing the software supply chain at Kusari, she moves fluidly between designing interfaces, building APIs, and optimizing PostgreSQL/Timescale-backed services. Her background in communication design and long history of UX roles give her a strong bias toward accessible, user-centered interfaces and cohesive design systems. At startups like LWorks she’s owned end-to-end delivery—React/Remix/Next frontends, Node/AWS Lambda APIs, Grafana/CloudWatch monitoring, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions—deploying to production multiple times a day. Comfortable in agile teams and fast-paced environments, she pairs a designer’s attention to detail with pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. Outside work she channels creativity into sewing, painting, archery, and historical European martial arts, which informs her iterative, craft-focused approach to building software.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Communication Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Communication Design at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (47)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
karlyanelson/holdinguphalfthesky
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
China's Influence on American Feminism
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
influencedataminingamericanwrappersfeminism
karlyanelson/andalsomuchcattle
Jun 2016 - Jun 2023
A Web Comic
Contributions:114 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
pyodidereactwebapp
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