Kayla Sommer
Senior Product Manager - Platform
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKayla Sommer is a Senior Product Manager with 11 years of experience translating UX, engineering, and business needs into B2B SaaS platform and decisioning products across startups and scale-ups. At Tiimely she progressed from Associate PM to Senior PM, shaping platform strategy and product design while drawing on a background in front-end development and UX design. She specializes in improving notoriously painful business software by blending user-centered design, agile practices, and practical engineering sensibilities. Based in Adelaide, she pairs a Product Management certification and software development training with a BFA in painting, bringing a creative eye to pragmatic product solutions. Outside work she mentors, reads voraciously, and stays sharp through gaming, reflecting a habit of learning that informs her product intuition.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Painting, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Painting at Delta State UniversityProduct Management Certification, Product Management Certification at Product SchoolEntrepreneurship - Preflight, Entrepreneurship - Preflight at Nashville Entrepreneur CenterSoftware Development, Software Development at Nashville Software School
German
Github Skills (14)
python5
django5
nodejs2
server-side2
javascript2
event-driven1
orm1
react-router1
sql1
router1
server-side-javascript1
redux1
react1
react-redux1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kaylasommer/hipsterbay
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Modern Bartering Application
Contributions:48 commits in 3 months
djangopython
kaylalynjones/kaylalynjones.design
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
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