Kate Bladow
Founder & Strategist
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Bladow is a founder and senior data engineer with 13 years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native data platforms, pipelines, and integrations. She has a track record of rapid impact—standing up Harvest’s data engineering function in 90 days and cutting cloud data costs by $100,000 annually—while building observability and reliability into production workflows. Kate has led teams through large integration programs (400+ connectors), personally refactoring half of them to speed customer onboarding, and she consistently fosters data literacy through mentorship and cross-team knowledge sharing. A longtime nonprofit technologist and community organizer who has spoken internationally, she blends entrepreneurial curiosity with practical engineering—often incubating mission-driven ventures at Powered Pursuits. Based in Fargo with roots in Baltimore, she pairs a technical dual-degree in CS and math with an uncommon focus on cost-aware, people-centered data systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
St. Olaf CollegeB.S., Computer Science & Mathematics, Minor in German, B.S., Computer Science & Mathematics, Minor in German at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (17)
component-based4
css4
ruby-on-rails3
rails3
ruby3
browser-support2
opal2
barrage2
browser2
singer-io2
dom2
ignite2
image-annotation1
virtual-dom1
image-processing1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kbladow/gdibmore
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
staqapp/heroku-buildpack-perl
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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