Kate Beard
Software Engineer II at Open Collective
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Beard is a Software Engineer II based in England with eight years' experience building reliable full-stack web applications and APIs. She contributes to prominent open-source projects like CodeSandbox and Open Collective, where she has shipped front-end UI improvements, GraphQL mutations, backend authentication features, and robust E2E Cypress tests. Her background in linguistics and photography informs a thoughtful, user-focused approach to UX and developer tooling, while her work on single-use login links and GitHub import shows attention to security and integrations. A former office manager turned engineer, she blends strong communication and process skills with hands-on coding across React, Next.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. Outside work she’s a guinea pig aficionado, bringing the same curiosity and care to both pets and code.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation degree, Art and Design, Foundation degree, Art and Design at University of the Arts LondonBachelor of Arts (BA), English and English Language Teaching, Bachelor of Arts (BA), English and English Language Teaching at University of Greenwich
English, German
Github Skills (37)
e2e-testing10
javascript10
cypress10
postgresql10
apidoc10
e2e-test10
user-authentication10
authentication10
ui-design10
wpgraphql10
col10
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
opencollective/opencollective-frontend
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
Open Collective's Frontend. A React app powered by Next.js.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:88 reviews, 208 commits, 266 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kate primarily contributed to the front-end of the Open Collective frontend application, with a focus on implementing and testing new features. They added end-to-end (E2E) tests for host-related components, including contributions, contributors, and transactions sections, using Cypress. In addition, they added and improved various UI elements and components, such as filters, contributor grids, and membership cards, by integrating data-cy attributes to create more targeted test cases. Furthermore, they created tests that cover host dashboard actions such as approving/rejecting expenses, approving/rejecting a new application, marking an expense as paid, etc.
next-jsreactfrontendopencollectivewebpack
opencollective/opencollective-api
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
Open Collective's API. A GraphQL API powered by Sequelize and PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 82 commits, 130 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kate's commits focused on enhancing the backend API of Open Collective. Their work primarily involved implementing single-use login links, including modifying authentication middleware and user models to handle the last login timestamp and prevent multiple uses of the same link. Additionally, they contributed to the codebase by adding and modifying other features, demonstrating proficiency in the API's core functionalities and security aspects. They also replaced and updated credit cards through API.
apigraphql-apisequelizeapi-snodejs
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