Kate Morrow
Backend Engineering Manager at Simple Finance
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Morrow is a seasoned backend engineering manager based in Portland, Oregon, with 11 years of experience leading teams and shipping reliable infrastructure at companies like Simple Finance and New Relic. She combines strong hands‑on systems work—evidenced by contributions to HashiCorp’s widely used Nomad orchestrator around datacenter and region management—with people leadership and delivery ownership. Her background spans research and product engineering roles at Wolfram and the University of Illinois, giving her a blend of rigorous technical depth and practical product focus. Trained in physics, applied mathematics, and music, she brings analytical rigor and creative problem solving to distributed systems and backend architecture.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.A., applied mathematics, physics, B.S., B.A., applied mathematics, physics at University of Vermontphysics, music, physics, music at Middlebury College
Github Skills (6)
go10
back-end-development10
nomad10
environment-variables9
api-design8
system-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kate primarily focused on implementing and modifying core features related to datacenter and region management within the Nomad workload orchestrator. They added functionalities for interpolating region and datacenter names and made adjustments to environment variable handling. The user also addressed several related bug fixes and made code refactoring changes to improve consistency. They also made changes to the Nomad codebase that included removing and re-adding the Region name from node struct.
vaultperformantmicroserviceworkloadoperate
qkate/asana-sprint-chart
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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