Katie Bacher
Engineering Manager at Uncountable Inc
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Bacher is an engineering manager and full-stack software developer with nine years of experience building interactive data visualizations and product-facing web applications in the San Francisco Bay Area. She blends hands-on front-end expertise in React and TypeScript—demonstrated by contributions to the notable Vega Lyra visualization design environment—with leadership at Uncountable, where she transitioned from full-stack developer to engineering manager. Her background at MIT CSAIL and the Media Lab grounds her work in human-computer interaction and research-driven design, while industry internships at Apple, Peloton, and Schneider Electric show a track record of translating prototypes into products. Comfortable across hardware-software boundaries from soft robotics to blockchain proof-of-concepts, she brings a pragmatic, design-centered approach to shipping intuitive, interactive systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Human Computer Interaction, Master of Engineering - MEng Human Computer Interaction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vega/lyra
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
An interactive, graphical Visualization Design Environment (VDE)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 21 commits, 13 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Katie primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Lyra project, focusing on the user interface and interaction aspects. Their work involved implementing and modifying UI components, such as inspectors for axis and area properties, and incorporating interactive elements. The user's commits demonstrate expertise in React and TypeScript, indicating a strong understanding of the project's front-end technologies and design principles. They also worked on integrating interaction features.
graphicalinteractivevdevisualization
ktbacher/ktbacher.github.io
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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