Kate Shaffer
Software Development Engineer II at Remitly
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Shaffer is a Software Development Engineer II based in Seattle with nine years of experience building reliable full-stack systems at Remitly and a background spanning tech support, operations, and nonprofit program work. She brings human-centered design to backend and API development, working across Kotlin, Java, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript with a strong emphasis on test-driven development and scalable REST services. Kate is drawn to mission-driven software—especially for non-profits, education, social justice, and environmental sustainability—and has shipped mobile and web projects from her Ada Developers Academy capstone to production services. Comfortable in Agile environments, she pairs operational know-how (SIP/IP PBXes, numbering/portability) with modern cloud tooling (AWS, Jenkins, Heroku) and a track record of mentoring and building team leadership. An atypical strength is her decade-plus front-line customer experience, which informs pragmatic, empathetic engineering and documentation.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (transferred), Bachelor of Arts (transferred) at Brown UniversitySoftware Development, Software Development at Ada Developers AcademyBachelor of Arts, Photography, Education, and Social Change, Bachelor of Arts, Photography, Education, and Social Change at New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Github Skills (14)
tac9
backbone8
api6
nodejs5
javascript4
big-o4
rails3
ruby-on-rails3
react2
ecommerce2
ruby2
css2
fundamentals1
python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brookseakate/actionist-api
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Ada-C6/brackets-relations
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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