Katrina Uychaco
Love Devotee, Relational Nerd, Emotional Truthteller
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatrina Uychaco is a senior software leader and engineer based in Berkeley who blends 11+ years of high-tech engineering and management with a deep, unconventional focus on relational transformation and embodiment. She spent nearly a decade at GitHub as a software engineer and senior engineering manager, contributing to flagship open-source projects like Atom and the VS Code GitHub Pull Requests extension and shipping features across desktop and web clients. Technically versatile, she has full‑stack experience in TypeScript, UI/UX, and backend workflows, and has authored tests and core fixes for widely used tools such as GitHub Desktop and visualizing-git. Trained as a chemical and materials engineer and later through Hack Reactor, she pairs rigorous systems thinking with pedagogical experience as a Hacker in Residence mentoring underrepresented engineers. Now leading the Epic Love Foundation, Katrina uniquely fuses somatic and relational practices with coaching modalities to support individual and collective evolution—bringing the precision of an engineer to the practice of transformational work. Her career reflects a rare mix of shipping production-grade software at scale while cultivating deeper human competencies around love, power, and agency.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Chemical Engineering, BS Chemical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San DiegoAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
Github Skills (56)
atom-editor10
editors10
git10
algorithms10
javascript10
coffeescript10
github10
package-management10
application-settings10
electron10
text-editor10
testing10
typescript10
user-interface10
github-desktop10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kuychaco/algoClass
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Common data structures and algorithms
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
Contributions summary:Katrina implemented various data structures and algorithms, demonstrating a solid understanding of fundamental computer science concepts. They created implementations for queues, stacks, sets, and hash tables, along with unit tests. The user also refactored existing code, improving structure and efficiency. Additionally, they added and modified code for linked list data structures.
data-structuresjavascriptalgorithms-and-data-structures
git-school/visualizing-git
Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
:framed_picture: Visualize how common Git operations affect the commit graph
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Katrina significantly contributed to the `visualizing-git` repository by implementing new features related to Git operations visualization. Their work includes the addition of cherry-picking functionality, handling merge commits, implementing `git log`, `rev-parse`, and reflog support, and improving the UI with a scenario selection menu. They also focused on improving existing features by, for example, handling edge cases in cherry-picking and making code improvements.
visualizegit-operationspicturecommitgraph
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