Katherine Cass
Manager, Release Engineering (Developer Productivity, CI CD) at Portfolia
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Cass is a seasoned release engineering and developer productivity leader with 11 years of experience building reliable, compliant, and fast delivery pipelines for large-scale SaaS and AI platforms. Currently managing Release Engineering at Affirm, she has a track record of stabilizing core DevEx systems, driving organization-wide SSDF/BES compliance, and leading incident response across critical CI/CD tooling. At Salesforce she founded and scaled quality and release teams for AI/ML platforms, shepherding migrations, test frameworks, and LLM-integrated quality practices while keeping attrition at zero. Known for clear cross-cultural communication and pragmatic process design, she pairs technical depth with people-first hiring and onboarding that measurably improves diversity and team performance. An unusual strength is quickly translating complex compliance controls into automated telemetry and self-attestation flows that accelerate releases without compromising safety.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityCertification Communications Excellence, Certification Communications Excellence at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessIroquois Senior High School
Github Skills (11)
google-cardboard3
mips2
cabal1
data-structures1
aws-lambda1
serverless1
shiny1
javascript1
visualize1
react1
lambda1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
k4therin2/k4therin2.github.io
Apr 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
k4therin2/Giggly-Strings
Apr 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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