Katie Simon
Customer Success Engineer at Simba Technologies
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolKatie Simon is a customer-focused engineering leader and founder with 11+ years building and scaling payments and FinTech platforms from startup prototypes to revenue-generating products. As Co-founder and CTO of Simba Technologies she designed a Python/Flask analytics and last-mile data collection stack used by social-impact organizations in 53 countries, pairing technical ownership with hands-on customer development. Her background spans product, banking operations, and regulatory-sensitive payments—having managed $14M in deposit accounts and $7M/month in payment processing at Snap! Raise and run end-to-end money movement at Ground.work. At Venmo she built the Support Engineering function and scaled support from 2 to 50+ while leading crisis response for production incidents, demonstrating strength in operational resilience and people scaling. Now based in Santa Barbara, she blends deep technical chops (Python, PostgreSQL, payments integrations) with pragmatic product instincts and a track record of turning complex compliance and ops challenges into dependable customer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Columbia EngineeringGithub contributions (5)
katiewsimon/coffeefilte.red
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
katiewsimon/moremoneyfor.me
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 4 months
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