Kathy Roeder
Life Scientist, WQS Reviewer at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKathy Roeder is a Life Scientist and public servant with a decade of experience translating water science into actionable policy and management across federal and state programs. At the EPA she reviews water quality standards and analyzes regional monitoring data using R, routinely presenting tools and training partners on data-driven approaches to water management. Her background includes managing nearly $400M in SRF-financed water infrastructure projects and hands-on field research in agricultural and aquatic systems, blending technical rigor with regulatory insight. Unusually for a scientist in public service, she also contributes to open-source front-end engineering—improving Angular support in the widely used Storybook project—bringing a rare mix of data science, policy, fieldwork, and software skills. Based in Chicago, she focuses on equitable water access, environmental justice, and collaborative resource management.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Masters, Environmental Science and Public Affairs, 3.888/4.000, Dual Masters, Environmental Science and Public Affairs, 3.888/4.000 at O'Neill School of Public and Environmental AffairsBachelor of Science - BS, Biology, focus in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 3.630/4.000, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, focus in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 3.630/4.000 at Purdue UniversityHigh School, 4.540/4.000, High School, 4.540/4.000 at Center Grove High School
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Github Skills (18)
storybook10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
angular10
javascript9
webpacker8
webpack8
ui-design8
testing7
html6
http-client6
php6
html-table6
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/storybook
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 308 commits, 60 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kathy primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the Angular integration within Storybook. Their contributions included adding support for Angular's Ivy rendering engine, integrating the addon-ivy, and updating to the latest Angular version. They also addressed build and compilation issues, specifically concerning TypeScript errors and Compodoc on Windows. Additionally, the user refactored to remove support for older Angular versions, focusing development on the current supported version.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
storybookjs/webpack-angular-types-plugin
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
A webpack plugin that adds type information to angular classes. The information can be consumed by @storybook/addon-docs.
Contributions:31 reviews, 30 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 11 months
webpack-pluginconsumedstorybookaddonangular
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