Katie Kowalsky
Senior Productization Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Kowalsky is a Senior Productization Manager and former cartographer with 11 years of experience building mapping, location services, and geospatial SaaS products. She blends design-minded cartography with data-driven product strategy, having led cross-functional teams at Esri, HERE, Stamen, and Mapzen to deliver visualization products, developer APIs, and pricing models. Katie is skilled at translating complex spatial data into usable products, driving roadmaps, and presenting strategy to executives and customers across continents. She has a track record of launching developer-focused offerings and introducing company-wide pricing and open source strategies that scaled community adoption. Based in San Francisco with a Master in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley, she brings a rare mix of technical mapping expertise and product-led business acumen.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Cartography/GIS, Bachelor of Science (BS) Cartography/GIS at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of City and Regional Planning, Master of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
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Github Skills (83)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kkowalsky/cartography-folx
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
an attempt to list awesome people who you can add to your mapping conferences, talks, competitions, etc.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 14 days
conferencesmapping
kkowalsky/kkowalsky.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 PRs, 101 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 11 months
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