Summary
Kathy Pine is a senior software engineer based in Portland with six years building cloud-native, full-stack platforms at Nike that power product planning and large-scale research initiatives. She designs and implements React/TypeScript frontends, Node.js microservices, and AWS infrastructure, and has driven features used by tens of thousands of research participants. Kathy pairs hands-on delivery—like a Cursor AI rules system of 3,500+ lines and Cypress E2E test coverage above 80%—with architectural leadership that established organizational standards and eliminated production incidents. She’s skilled at translating ambiguous business goals into phased technical plans, managing cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and presenting to stakeholders up to executive level. With a background spanning UI/UX at Intel and two decades of design and product work, she brings a rare blend of product sensitivity and systems thinking to engineering problems.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology at University of California, Davis
Master's degree, Master's degree at University of California, Irvine - School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine