Katie Riker
User Experience Manager, Core Platforms UX
Westford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Riker is a UX leader with nine years of experience shaping user experiences for complex enterprise and platform products, currently managing Core Platforms UX at Red Hat. She has led teams of designers and researchers across the full product lifecycle, from UI-driven apps to non-UI platform decisions, influencing core RHEL technologies and management tooling. Katie blends hands-on interaction design with strategic program building—contributing to PatternFly and design systems while driving research-backed, data-driven product choices. Known for fostering psychological safety and cross-functional collaboration, she helps organizations see how every role impacts the user experience. Her background in engineering psychology informs pragmatic usability testing techniques, including novel approaches for CLI tooling.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Engineering Psychology, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science, Engineering Psychology, Cum Laude at Tufts University
Github Skills (33)
patternfly10
layout9
redhat9
frontend8
compliance8
react8
sass8
security8
react-components8
console8
css7
mockups6
zeplin6
hat6
typescript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
katierik/formtest
Nov 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:48 PRs, 81 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 6 months
speedlayoutsreactionrecordcompletion
katierik/mentalmodelmaker
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Generates a Mental Model Diagram (based on Indi Young's Mental Models)
Contributions:85 commits, 8 PRs, 78 pushes in 3 months
mental-modelsdiagrammentalindi
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