Katherine Szelag is a Senior Developer based in Salt Lake City with six years of full-stack experience and a unique background bridging biological research and STEM education. She excels at pixel-perfect front-end implementation and thrives when collaborating closely with product and design, having led technical efforts that measurably improved creator onboarding and social integrations. Comfortable working across legacy Rails and modern React design systems, she pairs pragmatic engineering with empathetic, well-documented code and a focus on reducing user friction (e.g., dramatic drops in support tickets from connection improvements). Her prior work as a tutor and educator informs her clear communication and ability to design accessible experiences for diverse users, while her research training contributes disciplined problem-solving and data-driven decision making.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Certificate, Data Science Certificate at BrainStation
Master of Science - MS, Reproductive Physiology, Master of Science - MS, Reproductive Physiology at University of Toronto
Diploma, Full Stack Web Development, Diploma, Full Stack Web Development at Lighthouse Labs
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