Katie Wiersgalla
Director Of Product Management at Mattermost
Menomonie, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Wiersgalla is a product leader with 8 years of focused experience building and scaling collaboration and cloud products, now serving as Director of Product Management at Mattermost. She has led cross-functional Product and Education teams across Platform, End-user, Integrations, Admin, Mobile, and Cloud, and defined KPIs and OKRs to drive measurable outcomes. Katie launched Mattermost’s first Cloud offering, growing it from 0 to 10k accounts in six months, and drove self-service automation that cut operational overhead by 20%. She also led GDPR and SOC2 compliance efforts and established an Extended Support Release to support enterprise on-prem customers. Earlier roles show hands-on product ownership, agile transformation leadership, and a track record of reducing operating costs and improving go-to-market execution. An often-overlooked detail: she contributes to open-source documentation (Mattermost docs), emphasizing clarity and user guidance as part of product success.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Western Technical College - CompanyBachelor of Business Administration - BBA Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Computer Information Systems at Viterbo UniversityInterior Design, Interior Design at University of Wisconsin-Stout
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/docs
May 2018 - Feb 2022
Mattermost documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:324 reviews, 536 commits, 319 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Katie's contributions primarily focused on updating and improving the Mattermost documentation. They made revisions to existing documentation files related to account settings, implementation plans, and instruction guidelines. Further, the user created new documentation, including that for an extended support release and a migration announcement email template, demonstrating a focus on clarity and user guidance. The changes involved reformatting content, correcting errors, and providing updates on configuration.
mattermost-documentationmattermost
wiersgallak/mattermost-docker
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Dockerfile for mattermost in production
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 days
dockerfilein-productiondockermattermostproduction
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