Summary
Katy Perry is a developer advocate and technical community manager with 13 years of experience helping developer communities connect with products and each other. Based in Portland, she has driven developer relations and community programs at companies including CircleCI, LightStep, and InfluxData, blending technical fluency with strong writing and editorial instincts from an earlier career in copyediting. Trained at the Turing School in back-end development and holding a BA in English, she bridges code and communication—translating complex telemetry and CI/CD topics into accessible content and events. Katy is comfortable onstage as a public speaker and behind the scenes building programs that scale engagement and enable developer success. A pragmatic advocate, she pairs hands-on developer experience with a knack for shaping narrative and community processes.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Back-end software development, Back-end software development at Turing School of Software & Design
Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature, General at Missouri Southern State University
Spanish