Katie Lundsgaard is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing products across startups and fast-growing platforms. She progressed from customer-facing engineering and product roles into backend engineering at Heroku, Glitch, and Sentry before leading backend efforts and now staff-level work at Webflow. Katie combines a user-centered mindset from her early customer success and product specialist roles with deep technical chops gained through Hackbright Academy and hands-on engineering across cloud and platform services. Colleagues know her for translating customer needs into stable APIs and scalable services, and for moving quickly between shipping features and improving operational reliability. Her background straddling product, support, and backend engineering gives her a pragmatic edge in prioritizing engineering work that directly impacts users.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hackbright Academy
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 4 years 6 months
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Katie Lundsgaard - Staff Software Engineer at Webflow