Kate Schaefer
Product Manager at Endgame
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Schaefer is a product manager in Denver who transitioned from seven years of hands-on software development and engineering management into product leadership, blending technical fluency with people-first coordination. Her background ranges from full-stack training at Galvanize to progressive engineering roles at Formidable and Endgame, where she moved from engineer to engineering manager and now product manager. She excels at aligning cross-functional teams, translating between technical and business stakeholders, and finding pragmatic solutions that balance user needs, business goals, and engineering constraints. Prior experience in events and museum roles gives her an unusual edge in stakeholder empathy, logistics, and user-centered design. Colleagues know her as someone who deliberately seeks the “sweet spot” between feasibility and impact, shepherding ideas into deliverable products. Based in Denver, she combines startup agility with structured project experience to drive measurable outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Business Administration (BS) Marketing and Spanish, Bachelor of Science Business Administration (BS) Marketing and Spanish at Colorado State UniversityMaster of Arts (MA) Museums Studies & Heritage Education, Master of Arts (MA) Museums Studies & Heritage Education at Newcastle UniversityWeb Development Immersive Web Development- Full Stack, Web Development Immersive Web Development- Full Stack at Galvanize Inc
Github Skills (14)
spectacle10
keynote9
react8
javascript7
slide6
nodejs5
web-development3
reddit3
sorting3
redux3
full-stack2
formidable2
react-carousel1
pure-react-carousel1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
keschaefer/park-tracker-frontend
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
Track your visits to national and state parks, mark completed with badges
Contributions:8 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
nationalreactparksjavascriptbadges
keschaefer/kate_movies_frontend
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
Front end React site to show Kate's top Movie picks
Contributions:9 PRs, 18 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
reactpicksmoviekatereact-site
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