Kat Padilla
Senior Engineering Manager at Zeta Global
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKat Padilla is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Australia with over a decade building and scaling teams and systems across startups and larger organisations in the rewards, marketing and loyalty space. She has grown from individual contributor to staff engineer to manager, bringing deep technical judgment while prioritising team health, delivery discipline and long-term maintainability. Kat excels at aligning cross-functional strategy with execution, establishing strong technical foundations and improving delivery processes to make engineering predictable and scalable. Known for developing engineers into impactful contributors, she combines hands-on product and architecture experience with a pragmatic focus on reliable, scalable systems. Outside work, her GitHub tagline—"Caffeine maketh coder"—hints at a practical, energetic approach to problem solving and a preference for steady, sustained delivery over chasing trends.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at University of Santo Tomas
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
cjs10
country-codes10
region10
currency9
soap-client9
country-flags9
iso9
ruby-kafka9
soap9
karafka9
names9
rubygems8
authentication8
ruby8
identity8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
katpadi/sorty_sorter
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
katpadi/sublime-text-3
Oct 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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