Katie Apone
Staff Product Designer at Optro
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Apone is a Staff Product Designer with 12 years of experience blending product strategy, content design, and a sprinkle of programming to build clear, usable experiences across education, nonprofit, and ad-tech products. She excels at cross-functional collaboration, cultivating psychological safety through shared processes, transparent documentation, and clear communication to align teams around measurable outcomes. Katie helped launch Code.org’s early learning platform, led content and IA for Meta’s Ads & Business features, and now guides data-driven risk decisions at Optro. Her background in fine arts and Peace Corps service informs a human-centered approach to technical complexity and education-focused products. As a former freelancer who coded and published her own site on GitHub Pages, she brings both hands-on implementation empathy and systems thinking to product design. Outside work she still plays piano, a hint that creativity and discipline remain central to her practice.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Sharon High SchoolBA, Fine Arts, BA, Fine Arts at The George Washington University
English
Github Skills (6)
studio10
blockly10
coding10
science10
web-ide10
dashboard3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
kapone97/itsjusttheearth
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:69 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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