Katie Leonard
Senior Engineering Manager at NorthVine Consulting
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKatie Leonard is a senior engineering manager with 12+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS products across startups and public companies, currently leading engineering at Huntress from Portland, Oregon. She has a strong track record delivering large migrations and observability features—having led a 35K-customer migration at Brex and driven frontend observability work at Honeycomb. Katie combines hands-on technical leadership (React, TypeScript, Node, Rails) with people-first management, coaching engineers from early career to staff levels and scaling teams from single squads to multi-team organizations. A Certified Professional Coach who runs NorthVine Consulting, she brings structured leadership development and a warm-but-direct coaching style to help leaders gain confidence and executive presence. Her background in bioinformatics-style research tools and early data work gives her a pragmatic, metrics-oriented approach to product and reliability decisions. She also contributes to open-source test automation efforts, demonstrating attention to quality across both code and process.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Animal Physiology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Animal Physiology at Simon Fraser UniversityUndergraduate Certificate Software Development, Undergraduate Certificate Software Development at McGill University
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Github Skills (12)
testing10
javascript10
test-automation10
android-activity6
rspec6
cors6
android-studio6
android6
jetty6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/DEPRECATED.javascript
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Exercism exercises in JavaScript.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Katie's commits focus on modifying test specifications within the Exercism JavaScript track. The changes primarily involve skipping tests using `xit` directives, suggesting a focus on managing the test suite, potentially during the development or review of exercise solutions. The consistent pattern of skipping tests across multiple JavaScript exercises indicates a systematic approach to test management.
javascriptexercismexercism-exercises
keighty/eh-
Aug 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:63 commits, 6 issues in 5 months
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