Kate Chapman
Managing Principal at Untangling Systems
Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKate Chapman is a Managing Principal and seasoned socio-technical leader with 16 years guiding engineering organizations, open-source communities, and mission-driven NGOs toward clearer decisions and smoother delivery. She has served as CTO at Open Supply Hub and Cadasta, Director of Engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation, and Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, blending strategic technical leadership with on-the-ground experience in mapping and humanitarian technology. Kate excels at untangling complex systems where culture, incentives, and architecture collide, bringing systems thinking to platform, product, AI strategy, and governance. She is passionate about introducing AI-first workflows that respect human practices and has hands-on experience contributing documentation and learning resources to OpenStreetMap’s LearnOSM project. Based in Oregon, she pairs an Executive MBA with practical technical roots in geography and information technology to translate messy problems into actionable roadmaps. Open to full-time engineering leadership or fractional CTO partnerships, she particularly enjoys helping teams move faster with less friction.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyAssociate of Applied Science Information Technology, Associate of Applied Science Information Technology at Northern Virginia Community CollegeBachelor's degree Geography, Bachelor's degree Geography at George Mason University
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Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hotosm/learnosm
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
LearnOSM.org content, Jekyll layouts & issue tracking. This repository is dedicated to helping people learn how to map in OpenStreetMap (OSM) and use many of the software and tools in the OSM community.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:10 commits, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kate primarily contributed to the `learnosm` repository by editing and adding content to the documentation, specifically focusing on the "beginner" section. The changes included initial edits to the "start_osm.rst" file, and further refinements, including the addition of images and content in the GPS chapter. The edits also included merging in changes and updating configurations. The focus of the user's contributions indicates a strong emphasis on content creation and organization within the project.
layoutsissue-trackingdedicatedtrackingtraining-materials
Cadasta/cadasta-docs
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:166 commits, 3 PRs, 128 pushes in 1 year
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