Summary
Kat O'Leary is a versatile product manager and coding instructor with nine years of experience building educational products, email campaigns, and event platforms. She has managed technical projects at agencies and media companies—delivering HTML email programs for clients like General Motors and coordinating a Next.js/Firebase event app—while training teams in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL. As a freelance instructor she develops original curriculum and teaches K–12 students Arduino, Python, JavaScript, and Adobe Illustrator via one-on-one virtual lessons, blending pedagogy with hands-on engineering. Her background with Major League Hacking and university workshop programs shows a strong focus on community-driven technical education and developer advocacy. Based in the Columbia, SC area, she pairs practical product execution with creative digital and fiber art practice, bringing a design-minded perspective to technical problems. Notably, she combines client-facing production work with grassroots curriculum development—equally comfortable shipping code and teaching the next generation of builders.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, IST - Design and Development, Bachelors, IST - Design and Development at Penn State University