Katie Wright
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Buildkite
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Wright is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in New Zealand with 10 years of experience blending a strong frontend sensibility—React, Vanilla JS and jQuery—with backend work in Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. She’s shipped user-focused interfaces and resilient server-side systems at companies from Xero to Buildkite, bringing test-driven habits with RSpec. Trained in Visual Communication Design and web development, she pairs design thinking with pragmatic engineering to bridge UX and data-layer concerns. Comfortable toggling between pixels and database schemas, she’s known for prioritizing clear, maintainable code and thoughtful front-end performance optimizations that improve real user workflows.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
St Oran's CollegeBachelor of Design(Honors), Visual Communication Design, Bachelor of Design(Honors), Visual Communication Design at Massey UniversityWeb Development, Web Development at Enspiral Dev Academy
Github Skills (46)
buildkite10
exunit10
dictionary10
rails9
rspec9
adapter9
minitest9
elixir8
xctest8
android-test8
collector8
javascript8
testing8
ruby7
formatter7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
KatieWright26/ruby-rbenv-example
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
An example of how to run a Ruby project w/ rbenv in a Buildkite pipeline
Contributions:130 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
KatieWright26/larping-2019
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
App for people into Live Action Role Play to create LARPing events
Contributions:46 PRs, 61 pushes, 48 branches in 5 months
eventsrolelive-action
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