Kathy Reid
Research & Development Lead, Mozilla Data Collective
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKathy Reid is a research-driven technology leader with over a decade of hands-on experience and a 20-year history working across speech recognition, conversational AI, ML, and digital platforms. Currently leading R&D for the Mozilla Data Collective and pursuing a PhD at ANU School of Cybernetics, she excels at turning ambiguous, chaotic problems into structured research agendas and practical frameworks. Her background spans industry roles at NVIDIA and Mycroft AI, university digital transformation, and open-source contributions—including front-end improvements to the widely used Mycroft skills tooling. Kathy blends technical delivery (DevOps, web and voice stacks) with strategic product and community development, and she’s known for producing operational playbooks and language strategy work that bridge research, policy and engineering. Based in Geelong, Australia, she uniquely pairs cybernetics-informed systems thinking with pragmatic prototyping to make emerging tech usable and accountable.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBA/BSc, Information Systems, Indonesian, BA/BSc, Information Systems, Indonesian at Deakin UniversityVCE, Indonesian, Information Systems, Specialist Maths, Maths Methods, English, VCE, Indonesian, Information Systems, Specialist Maths, Maths Methods, English at Newcomb Secondary CollegeMBA (Computing), Project Management, IT Governance, Change Management, MBA (Computing), Project Management, IT Governance, Change Management at Charles Sturt University
Indonesian
Stackoverflow
710reputation
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50answers
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speech-recognition
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Github Skills (18)
css10
user-interface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
html10
javascript9
speech-recognition9
graphql6
phoneme6
farsi6
tensorflow6
github-api6
pyaudio6
mozilla-deepspeech6
github6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
MycroftAI/mycroft-skills
Nov 2017 - Jan 2019
A repository for sharing and collaboration for third-party Mycroft skills development.
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:202 commits, 190 PRs, 130 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kathy primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Mycroft Skill Readme Generator tool, focusing on the `meta_editor.html` file. Their work involved fixing typos, adding links to documentation and the chat channel, and incorporating visual elements such as icons and previews. The user also made styling improvements to the user interface by adding CSS to improve card previews. A key contribution was the addition of validation for category checkboxes to ensure proper skill categorization.
third-partyvoice-controlmycroftpartyapps
KathyReid/pantone-inkscape-swatches
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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