Kate Boyd
Senior Engineer at Shopify
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Boyd is a senior software engineer based in Denver with five years of hands-on experience building maintainable, scalable web applications across startups and large companies. Currently at Shopify, she previously helped define architecture and best practices on greenfield projects at Thorn focused on protecting children, and has deep front-end experience migrating legacy systems and shipping hybrid mobile apps. Comfortable across React, Angular, Vue and Rails stacks, she emphasizes long-term maintainability, testing, and secure handling of sensitive data. Kate pairs product-minded engineering with a knack for knowledge sharing—presenting lightning talks and owning tech decisions—and brings a background in multimedia and Japanese studies that informs her clear communication and cross-cultural collaboration.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Studies, Japanese Studies at Keio UniversityBachelor's degree Multimedia, Bachelor's degree Multimedia at UNC School of Media and JournalismBachelor's degree Asian Studies - Japanese, Bachelor's degree Asian Studies - Japanese at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
continuous-delivery9
continuous-deployment9
docker9
heroku6
buildpack6
baduk5
asynchronous4
golang4
async4
ruby4
asyncio2
reactor2
go2
event-driven2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
kwboyd-shopify/testing
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
just testing <3
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
testing
Shopify/shipit-engine
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Deployment coordination
Contributions:20 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 4 months
continuous-deploymentdeploymentcoordinationdockercontinuous-delivery
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