Kate Farrar
Staff Product Designer at Dagster Labs
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKate Farrar is a Staff Product Designer with nine years of experience crafting end-to-end product experiences for data, observability, and developer-focused tools, now shaping data orchestration UX at Dagster Labs. She’s led 0-to-1 products and design systems—driving a $250K ARR alerting product at FireHydrant and building company-wide Figma + React systems that scaled cross-platform experiences from web to Slack and mobile. Comfortable in both individual contributor and management roles, she has hired and mentored designers while representing design in executive decision-making and hiring committees. Kate brings a strong developer background and front-end sensibility from earlier web development roles, which informs pragmatic, engineer-friendly design solutions. Her work is grounded in product-led growth, accessibility, and DEI advocacy, having founded employee resource groups and served on diversity councils. Based in Boulder, CO, she combines systems thinking with hands-on craft to make complex AI- and data-driven workflows feel clear and usable.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree History Political Science, Bachelor’s Degree History Political Science at Arizona State UniversityDesert Mountain High School
Github Skills (41)
observation10
observability10
dagster10
data-collection10
operation10
python10
data-science10
airbyte10
data-engineering10
metadata10
analytics10
kibana10
scheduler10
etl10
workflow-automation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Uvacoder/maddieportfolio
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:73 commits in 2 years
katefarrar/kibana
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
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