Kat Tipton
Senior Software Consultant at Test Double
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKat Tipton is a Senior Software Consultant with over a decade of hands-on experience building and improving complex web systems, specializing in backend and full-stack work across Rails, NodeJS, TypeScript, and legacy Perl. She thrives on untangling and modernizing existing codebases—designing pragmatic integrations like a DynamoDB single-table role-based permission microservice for a fintech client and adding security with Rack::Attack on an open-source Rails case management project. Comfortable leading feature work and technical direction, she has driven frontend component systems in Next.js as well as infrastructure migrations to AWS for government and research projects. Motivated by mission-driven organizations, she favors agile teams influenced by Scrum and XP and deliberately avoids defense, secret-clearance, and hyper-growth buyout trajectories. A practical polyglot and active contributor to civic-minded open source, she balances careful engineering trade-offs with a focus on reducing manual work and fraud through thoughtful automation.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ocean Lakes High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Longwood University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
back-end-development10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
testing9
data-modeling9
activerecord9
mongodb8
mongoid8
security8
google-visualization6
timeout6
buffer6
perl6
python6
yahoo-api6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DARIAEngineering/dcaf_case_management
Oct 2016 - Nov 2022
Rails-based case management system for abortion funds
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:308 reviews, 428 commits, 249 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kat focused on implementing core features for a Rails-based case management system. Their work included creating views and routes for a lineselect feature, along with related controller logic and testing. They also added functionality to summarize pledge information for patients and developed the underlying database models for this feature. Finally, they made improvements to the seed data for the application and integrated Rack::Attack for security, adding a further focus on the backend.
rails
lomky/learning
May 2018 - Mar 2021
collecting together all my learning repos
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
collectingpython
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