Katy Mollenkopf
Senior Game Designer at Epic Games
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaty Mollenkopf is a Senior Game Designer with eight years of experience crafting live-service content and player-facing systems for Fortnite, where she progressed from intern to senior designer on the quest team. She pairs design intuition with technical fluency in Unreal Engine, Perforce, and rapid iteration workflows to ship engaging Battle Pass content and weekly challenges. Earlier work as a full-stack engineering intern at Target shows she is comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks—adding UI, database, GraphQL, and test automation features to an open-source on-call scheduling tool. Katy’s background includes research and teaching-focused demos of AI behavior trees and EQS, reflecting a knack for translating technical systems into usable tools and experiences. Colleagues rely on her to blend creative design with engineering pragmatism, enabling high-impact, player-centered features in a fast-moving live game.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (18)
wpgraphql10
go10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
react10
postgresql9
javascript9
cypress9
database-schema8
db-schema8
database-design8
schema-design8
testing8
schema8
cicd7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
target/goalert
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Open source on-call scheduling, automated escalations, and notifications so you never miss a critical alert
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 102 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Katy implemented features and made changes across both the front-end and back-end of the application. This includes adding user favorites support to schedules with corresponding UI changes, database schema modifications, and GraphQL updates. Additionally, the user worked on contact method verification, including UI components, API integrations, and Cypress testing. Furthermore, they implemented the necessary front-end components and back-end functionality for supporting and displaying heartbeat monitors, demonstrating familiarity with the complete stack.
alertcriticalescalationson-callscheduling
Katy-M/portfolio
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:72 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 1 year 1 month
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