Katie Cunningham
Director Of Technology at Speak Agent
Woodbridge, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKatie Cunningham is a Director of Technology with 16 years of experience building Python and Django-based systems, leading teams, and shipping full-stack products for education and media. At SpeakAgent she architects the backend API and prototypes teacher/student interfaces in AngularJS while mentoring engineers and setting technical direction. A sought-after speaker and instructor, she regularly teaches Python and accessibility, organizes local PyLadies chapters, and has authored books for O'Reilly and Pearson. Her background includes scaling a multi-site Django CMS for 200+ media properties at Cox Media Group and delivering reliable web projects as a NASA contractor. Katie combines hands-on development with curriculum design and accessibility advocacy, making her equally comfortable coding, teaching, and evaluating new tech for practical impact. Based in Woodbridge, VA, she’s currently working on her third book, blending real-world engineering with accessible learning.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA Psychology, BA Psychology at George Mason University
Github Skills (26)
django-blog10
tabletop10
azerothcore9
django8
mongodb8
glossary8
trinitycore8
playing8
nodejs7
javascript7
css7
vue7
python7
html6
react6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lingshare/lingshare-staging
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:34 PRs, 138 pushes, 13 branches in 11 months
kcunning/gamemaster-scripts
Jan 2018 - May 2021
A collection of scripts that help me run my tabletop games
Contributions:131 commits, 4 PRs, 110 pushes in 3 years 5 months
azerothcoregamestrinitycoretabletop-gamesdungeons-and-dragons
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