Katy Lavallee
Principal Software Engineer at O'Reilly Media
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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SeniorKaty Lavallee is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building full-stack, production-grade web platforms and developer tools, currently shaping the O’Reilly learning platform from Carrollton, Texas. She combines hands-on work across backend and frontend microservices with a focus on developer tooling and internal platforms that help teams ship faster. Her background includes building customer-facing commerce systems and custom Django applications, plus maintaining Ubuntu servers and delivering offline-capable tablet apps—showing comfort with both infrastructure and UX constraints. Katy mentors engineers and emphasizes shipping software that makes users’ lives easier, not just elegant code. She has a practical, product-oriented approach honed by running a web consultancy and moving teams from PHP to Django. Colleagues know her as the kind of engineer who equally values developer ergonomics and measurable user impact.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
2,751reputation
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36answers
4questions
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Github Skills (200)
statusline10
vim10
heroicons10
datetimes10
cypress-plugin10
api10
fonts10
font-awesome10
visualization10
font-size10
highlighting10
octicons10
webfonts10
docker-engine10
binder10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FirelightWebware/djangocon2013-notes
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 2 days
katylava/pyfreecell
Jan 2012 - Jul 2022
Contributions:73 commits, 3 pushes in 10 years 7 months
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