Katie Hughes
Software Engineer at Stripe
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Hughes is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building accessible, user-focused web applications and documentation platforms. Based in Portland, she has led front-end and full-stack projects at companies including Stripe and Elastic, where she rebuilt a documentation engine with Next.js, MDX support, and cross-product versioning to simplify contributor workflows. She excels at translating writer and product needs into pragmatic technical solutions, has tech-led planning and performance research efforts, and routinely improves developer ergonomics through tooling and configuration work. Earlier roles show breadth across Elm, React/Redux, Ruby, Elixir, and GraphQL experiments, and she’s known for mentoring, running book clubs, and fostering cross-team collaboration—skills that reveal a penchant for teaching and durable process improvements.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Oregon State University
English
Github Skills (55)
opensearch10
visualization10
observability10
css-in-js10
eui10
analytics10
kibana10
elastic-ui10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
react10
netlify9
widgets9
remark9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
glitteringkatie/glitteringkatie.com
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 124 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 7 months
glitteringkatie/squirrel-degrees
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:94 commits, 36 PRs, 70 pushes in 3 months
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