Summary
Katie Scruggs is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building full‑stack web applications and infrastructure, currently contributing to Cisco Meraki from Denver. She has shipped features and led cross‑team engineering efforts at companies ranging from Google and Handshake to Nordstrom, with deep hands‑on experience in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and cloud platforms like GCP and AWS. Katie has proven leadership in high‑pressure pivots—she architected Handshake’s transition to virtual career fairs and coordinated parallel work across teams while serving as tech lead. Her background as a teacher and bilingual studies in German and zoology give her a rare empathy for users and a disciplined approach to problem solving. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and integrations, she also brings practical SRE skills (monitoring, CI/CD) that help keep features reliable in production.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Semester Abroad in Graz Austria, Semester Abroad in Graz Austria at University of Graz
Front-End Engineering Program, Front-End Engineering Program at Turing School of Software & Design
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) double-major in Zoology and German, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) double-major in Zoology and German at University of Oklahoma
German, English