Katy Decorah
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
City of Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKaty Decorah is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years building polished front-end experiences, currently at Microsoft after a long tenure shaping map-centric products at Mapbox. She specializes in UI/UX, accessibility, and documentation improvements—frequently enhancing SEO, social sharing metadata, and site layouts across well-known open-source projects like mapbox-gl-js and mapbox.js. Katy’s work blends design sensibility and engineering rigor, from fixing accessibility and high-contrast issues in Accessibility Insights for Web to refining geocoder controls and layout consistency for mapping libraries. Based in Saratoga Springs, NY, she pairs a Masters in Information Science with hands-on contributions that improve discoverability and usability of developer-facing docs and tools. An organizer and educator early in her career, she brings strong communication and product-minded thinking to cross-functional teams.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information Science, Masters Information Science at University at AlbanyBachelors History Classics, Bachelors History Classics at Siena University
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Github Skills (36)
accessibility10
page-layout10
javascript10
seo10
mapbox-gl-js10
layout10
css10
typescript10
sc10
doc10
scs10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
meta-tags10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/mapbox.js
Apr 2015 - Feb 2021
Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 50 commits, 32 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Katy's contributions primarily focused on updating and modifying the documentation layout files within the `mapbox.js` repository. They made several revisions to the `default.html` layout, adding and modifying metadata tags related to search engine optimization and social media integration, such as `og:title`, `twitter:description`, and `swiftype` tags. Additionally, the user introduced and removed specific HTML elements, adjusted scripts and links, and refined the overall structure of the documentation's presentation.
leafletapimapboxleaflet-plugindocs-site
mapbox/mapbox-studio-classic
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Katy primarily contributed to the front-end design and layout of the website within the repository. Their work involved copy edits to improve clarity, fixes for horizontal overflow issues, and the addition of redirects for better navigation. They also updated the website's default layout, including meta tags for improved SEO, and added button classes for consistency.
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