Katrina Bakas
Director Of Infrastructure Engineering at IonQ
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKatrina Bakas is a pragmatic infrastructure and product leader with 8 years of experience building developer-facing platforms and internet-foundational systems across companies like Netflix, AWS, Realtor.com, and Pivotal. She currently leads Infrastructure Engineering at IonQ, overseeing compute, data platforms, CI/CD, embedded systems, networking, and observability while advising The Players Network on scaling marketplace tech for women’s sports. Known for translating complex technical needs into simple, reliable solutions, she has shipped global CloudFront features, modernized developer portals, and led Spinnaker and observability products at scale. Katrina combines hands-on stack experience—from cloud and HPC to customer-facing apps—with a people-first approach that fosters high-trust teams and faster, measurable outcomes. An unexpected thread through her career is pairing product strategy with operational rigor to remove “boring” work so other teams can move faster.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) International/Global Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) International/Global Studies at University of Colorado Denver
Spanish, FrenchGithub contributions (2)
pivotal-cf/docs-pcf-healthwatch
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:118 commits, 47 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 year 2 months
majidmade/docs-pcf-healthwatch
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:4 comments in 12 days
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