Kat Tarpey
Software Engineer at SAIC
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKat Tarpey is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building full-stack web platforms, CI/CD improvements, and developer tooling across startups and enterprise teams. She has led distributed teams and managed feature delivery for DevOps-focused products, and she’s comfortable across languages and stacks including Go, TypeScript/Angular, React, PHP, and Kubernetes. As an instructor and mentor, she codified bootcamp processes and automated GitHub Classroom workflows to scale apprenticeship training with over 90% satisfaction. Her background includes optimizing high-traffic applications, speeding Drupal migrations with automation, and modernizing design systems—work that blends product-focused front-end polish with backend integration reliability. Based in West Brookfield, MA, she pairs enthusiastic “golden retriever” energy with rigorous engineering discipline and is currently pursuing a master’s in computer science at Georgia Tech. An under-the-radar strength is her knack for turning developer experience gaps into repeatable automation that improves team velocity.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Major GPA: 3.89/4.00, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Major GPA: 3.89/4.00 at Worcester State UniversityWorcester Polytechnic InstituteHigh School, High School at Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
English
Github Skills (35)
drupal10
acquia10
cli10
csv8
tilt8
ruby-on-rails8
github8
css8
listener8
javascript8
nodejs8
git8
patch7
ruby7
html7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
klaw772/klaw772
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
klaw772/hi-im-kat
Aug 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
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