Katie Lawhorn
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKatie Lawhorn is a Staff Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of full-stack experience building user-focused tools and leading projects at Shopify. She has advanced from developer to staff-level roles by shipping end-to-end features, mentoring teams, and bridging UX, frontend (Ember/JS) and backend (Clojure, Ruby) concerns. Her background includes analytics and automation work at Nike, enterprise feature delivery at Puppet, and hands-on test-driven, continuous delivery practices. Katie combines product-minded engineering with agile team leadership, often owning design feedback through to acceptance tests. Beyond code, she draws resilience and adaptability from a year of solo travel and years in fast-paced hospitality, which inform her calm, people-first leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Javascript Engineer, Full stack Javascript development, Javascript Engineer, Full stack Javascript development at Portland Code SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government at Portland State University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
winrm9
nodes9
bolt9
puppet8
clojurescript7
ssh7
clojure6
devops5
agent5
automation4
infrastructure4
storage4
orchestration3
fundamentals1
jdbc1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
klawhorn/clj-parent
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
A clojure project that defines version numbers for common dependencies
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
dependenciesclojureclojurescript
klawhorn/microblog
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 27 days
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