Katherine Manning
Privacy Analyst at DuckDuckGo
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolKatherine Manning is a privacy analyst with nine years of experience blending technical engineering and policy-minded work, currently advancing user-first privacy at DuckDuckGo after progressing from a junior role there. An Outreachy and Mozilla alumnus, she has a strong open source background and practical experience building privacy-focused tooling and webcompat infrastructure using Python/Django and PostgreSQL. Katherine’s technical roots include Android app development and data-driven projects from her master’s work, where she combined web scraping, local databases, and charting to deliver usable consumer and research apps. Comfortable switching between code, triage, and clear documentation, she brings a rare mix of English-literature-honed communication and hands-on software craftsmanship to complex privacy problems. Based in Lombardy, she’s driven by pragmatic privacy solutions that are both technically sound and user-friendly.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) Interdisciplinary Computer Science, Master of Arts (M.A.) Interdisciplinary Computer Science at Mills CollegeEnglish Language and Literature General, English Language and Literature General at Barnard CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA English Language and Literature General, Bachelor of Arts - BA English Language and Literature General at Connecticut College
English, Italian, French, Spanish
Github Skills (63)
javascript10
duckduckgo10
data-set10
wordpress10
redux10
plugin10
android-app10
android10
wordpress-plugin10
nodejs10
react10
interoperability9
jetpack9
math9
data-management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
webcompat/webcompat-metrics-server
Jun 2018 - Apr 2022
Server in charge of delivering different data to the webcompat-metrics-client
Contributions:1 review, 86 commits, 42 PRs in 3 years 9 months
apipythonmetrics-clientpython3charge
MAKE-Studios/prototype
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:71 PRs, 52 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 3 months
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