Summary
Katie McGinley is a frontend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience, now based in Berlin and fluent in React, Next.js and TypeScript while comfortable working full-stack with Node and Python. After a successful career as a mechanical engineer, she pivoted into software and brings a systems-minded, pragmatic approach to building user-facing applications, APIs, and integrations like React/GraphQL/Flask/MySQL stacks. She has shipped production systems across startups and scale-ups—from e-prescription platforms and mobile apps to volunteer management and ML model tooling—and has experience with deployments, DevOps patterns and qualified electronic signatures. Curious by nature, Katie prioritizes continuous learning across security, performance and data, and enjoys tackling greenfield projects as well as refining legacy flows. Open to freelance or permanent roles in GMT+1, she balances hands-on implementation with a strong instinct for product-quality interactions and developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
English, German, French, Italian, Thai, Irish