Katia Wheeler
Senior Software Engineer at Vanta
Olathe, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatia Wheeler is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building SaaS products, currently driving engineering work at Vanta after a five-year senior role at Shopify. She specializes in React and .NET, combining front-end polish with backend reliability to deliver customer-focused applications. A former adjunct professor who taught JavaScript and React, she brings a strong mentorship and teaching mindset to team development and code quality. Katia’s background spans startups and established teams—from web design to enterprise SaaS—giving her a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to engineering. Outside of work she balances coding with gaming, coffee, and family life, reflecting a creative yet disciplined problem-solving style.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasSoftware Development Certificate, Computer Science, Software Development Certificate, Computer Science at Johnson County Community College
English, German, American Sign Language
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (129)
react10
slide9
javascript9
keyboard9
api9
angular9
developer-tools9
outlook9
codesandbox9
testing9
infinite-scroll9
zero-configuration9
infinite-lists9
health-check9
react-carousel9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
katiawheeler/healthy
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
A react-based health check application for the APIs serving your client application
Contributions:22 commits, 15 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 7 months
apireactservinghealthhealth-check
katiawheeler/katiawheeler
Jan 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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