Kathleen Sharp
Principal Engineer Kotlin Java at Freelance
Berlin, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolKathleen Sharp is a Principal Engineer and engineering leader with over 17 years of experience designing and delivering Java and Kotlin-based systems across fintech and marketplace domains. Currently freelancing from Berlin, she architects cloud-native Kotlin microservices on AWS EKS with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL and Keycloak to drive CO2 emissions reduction—combining hands-on coding with product-minded system design. Her background spans senior engineering and management roles at Solarisbank and OLX Group and deep technical roots at IBM, reflecting a rare blend of people-focused leadership and low-level platform expertise. Known for a constant learning mindset and knowledge sharing, she brings strong analytical rigor from a first-class Computer Science degree and a history of tackling complex distributed and security-conscious systems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) - First Class, Computer Science, First, BSc (Hons) - First Class, Computer Science, First at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (65)
python10
sql10
java10
scala10
signavio9
big-data9
apache-flink9
apache9
avro7
rest-api6
json-schema6
jpa6
schema6
jekyll6
json6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
katsharp/katsharp.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
katsharp/kotlin-koans
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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