Kate Whalen
Staff Engineer at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarKate Whalen is a Staff Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and platform tooling across client and server sides. Comfortable in polyglot environments, she has delivered developer experience, platform engineering, and security improvements, most recently contributing to The Guardian’s frontend codebase including email subscription features and UI fixes on a high-profile site. Previously she shaped production reliability at Kaluza, bringing practical operational know-how to large-scale services. Kate pairs hands-on coding with security advocacy outside of work, and she’s known for tinkering with Raspberry Pis and physical locks—small signs of a maker mindset that informs her pragmatic approach to engineering. She enjoys improving developer workflows and product surfaces so teams can move faster without sacrificing safety.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react9
html9
email-marketing9
css9
content-management-system8
back-end-development8
content-management8
backend8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Apr 2016 - Apr 2020
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:652 commits, 444 PRs, 565 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kate made several code changes related to email subscriptions, including moving the email list to a common component and remodelling the bonus features, indicating work across both frontend and backend. The commits also included modifications to frontend templates and the addition of email subscription features. The user also worked on various user interface elements, such as fixing visual rendering issues.
productionguardian
guardian/security-hq
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
Centralised security information for AWS accounts
Contributions:25 reviews, 159 commits, 91 PRs in 3 years 4 months
securityaccountsawsproductioninformation-security
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