Kate Edmundson
Director, Platform Engineering
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKate Edmundson is a seasoned software engineering leader with over a decade of platform-focused experience and twenty years building for the web. She currently leads Platform Engineering at New York Public Radio, where she progressed from developer roles to Director, shaping scalable infrastructure and cross-functional delivery across digital products. Kate combines hands-on technical depth with people leadership, having led teams through platform modernization, site reliability, and API-driven architectures. Her background spans agency and nonprofit environments, giving her a pragmatic product sensibility and a strong focus on user-facing performance. Trained in anthropology and French, she brings a human-centered approach to engineering and communication that helps bridge technical and editorial stakeholders. Based in New York City, she’s known for steady long-term ownership and turning complex organizational needs into reliable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Anthropology French Minor, BA Anthropology French Minor at Haverford College
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
content-management-system10
cms10
python10
django10
wagtail10
content-management10
user-experience10
flexibility10
ember-addon9
pip6
django-admin6
emberjs6
ember6
asp-net-mvc6
django-cms6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kedmundson/wifiNYC
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
kedmundson/wagtail
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangodjango-blog
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