Katerina Hanson
Director Of Engineering at Kojo
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaterina Hanson is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling backend-heavy product organizations across fintech, proptech, and media. Currently a Sr. Engineering Manager at Muon Space, she leads the Missions Planning platform and brings deep hands-on Python expertise alongside strong instincts for distributed systems and observability. Previously she scaled Kojo from early growth to a 45-engineer org through Series B/C, owning SOC 2, cloud infrastructure, release management, and organizational design. Her background spans machine learning-enabled underwriting at Doma, payments and internationalization at Scribd, and regulated marketplaces in healthcare—demonstrating an ability to deliver reliable systems in complex, compliance-driven domains. Trained as a chemical engineer at Johns Hopkins, she pairs rigorous process thinking from engineering and manufacturing with pragmatic software leadership, often surfacing operational improvements that reduce friction between product, infra, and field teams.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
pdf10
pdf-files10
pdf-generation10
react9
python8
typescript8
ui-components7
django-admin6
django-models6
sqlalchemy6
intellij-plugin6
htaccess6
alias6
django6
react-components6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
katerina7479/pypdflite
Jun 2013 - Aug 2022
A lightweight utility for creating PDF files, written in Python
Contributions:197 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 years 3 months
lightweight-utilitypythonpdfpdf-generationpdf-files
katerina7479/LineSizer
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 3 months
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