Kate Leahy
Technical Lead at Vetspire
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKate Leahy is a technical lead and full-stack engineering leader with over a decade of experience building web products and guiding teams from design through delivery. With a foundation in UX and graphic design, she brings a strong eye for product and developer experience, advocating rigorous code quality, test coverage, and maintainable standards. She’s led teams and managed engineers on large, distributed codebases—most recently driving greenfield integrations that simplified complex insurance workflows and enabled new partnerships. Hands-on by preference, Kate is happiest when her role includes active coding, and she favors Elixir with LiveView or React/TypeScript frontends while remaining fluent in Python, Rails, and legacy frontend frameworks. Known for raising engineering bar and modernizing legacy systems, she combines product sensibility with practical leadership to improve reliability and developer productivity. Based in Winston-Salem, NC, she pairs high standards with a collaborative style that keeps her involved across the full product lifecycle.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and DesignBachelor of Arts English, Bachelor of Arts English at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
wheels10
integrate9
html-parser9
nodes8
gliding8
css-selectors7
html5ever7
parser7
pug6
angular6
nodejs6
phoenix-framework6
angularjs6
erlang6
elixir6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
katehedgpeth/bird_song
Mar 2023 - Jul 2024
An Elixir + LiveView webapp using Ebird and Flickr APIs to help users learn to identify birds by ear. Makes extensive use of GenServers and ETS tables to throttle API calls and cache responses.
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
mbta/shuttle_tracker
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
Track locations of service-replacing shuttles
Contributions:8 PRs, 36 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 3 months
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