Kate Mcdonald
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps SRE) at Lightspeed Commerce
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Mcdonald is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently driving SRE and DevOps initiatives at Lightspeed Commerce in New York. She combines full-stack development chops with deep expertise in identity, access management, feature flagging, and observability—having led cross-product SSO, product switching, and feature management extractions from monoliths. Kate is a hands-on leader who builds developer experience communities, mentors peers for on-call readiness, and has repeatedly embedded with product teams to unblock tight delivery timelines. Notably, she scoped and delivered integrations (OAuth 2.0) that became foundational for third-party sign-in across multiple products, showing a pragmatic ability to turn platform work into measurable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at DePaul UniversityFullstack Academy
Github Skills (16)
sensor9
security6
mocking5
testing5
javascript5
nodejs5
falcon5
http4
http-server4
kubernetes4
mock-server4
helm4
k8s4
container3
charts3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kmcdon10/EbayBay
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:115 PRs, 93 pushes, 93 branches in 1 year 6 months
PhotoTagger/django-initial
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:71 commits, 41 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 month
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