Katie Atkinson
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Atkinson is a Senior Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience building developer-focused tooling and production deployment systems. At Reddit she designs and maintains CI/CD and deployment pipelines that run at scale—supporting thousands of daily jobs and over a hundred service deployments per day—while creating abstractions to simplify Kubernetes operations. She specializes in improving developer velocity through faster deployments and easier automated testing, and has contributed back to notable open-source infrastructure such as Reddit’s baseplate.py framework (enhancing queue consumers, env var configs, and observability integrations). Earlier in her career she combined hands-on test automation with accessibility and QA leadership at YouTube, bringing a strong testing-first mindset to platform reliability. Katie pairs practical engineering with empathy for fellow developers, often solving problems that make teams measurably more productive.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hackbright AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at MITxB.S, Psychology, 3.3, B.S, Psychology, 3.3 at University of Wisconsin
English, American Sign Language
Github Skills (11)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
kombu10
environment-variables10
python10
redis9
sentry9
testing8
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reddit/baseplate.py
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
reddit's python service framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 199 reviews, 16 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Katie primarily contributed to the `reddit/baseplate.py` framework, focusing on enhancements and configurations related to Kombu queue consumers and environment variable support. They added features like the `worker_kwargs` to the Kombu consumer and updated configuration options, especially concerning environment variables. The user also addressed improvements to the Sentry integration, adding default exceptions to ignore and setting up the default Zipkin API URL from the environment. Furthermore, they made improvements to the live data fetcher, allowing it to create directories.
servicespythonasynciogeventframework
KTAtkinson/baseplate.py
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
reddit's python service framework
Contributions:1 release, 70 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years
pythonpyramidasynciopython-3-6gevent
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