Summary
Katherine Cox-buday is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of professional experience and over two decades of passion for computer science and software engineering. She is a pragmatic generalist and polyglot who has shipped backend systems across startups and scale-ups, including roles at DigitalOcean, Canonical, and Simple Finance, and now contributes at Lambda. Comfortable on both Microsoft and open source stacks, she prefers the flexibility and productivity of open source technologies while remaining effective in enterprise environments. Katherine brings strengths in creative problem solving and continuous improvement, often finding more efficient approaches to persistent engineering challenges. Her background spans languages and systems from C# and PL/SQL to Go, Mongo, and Linux, reflecting a deep operational fluency. Based in Canada, she combines hands-on coding with an engineer-manager perspective that helps teams move from idea to reliable production.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Missouri-Saint Louis