Summary
Kayliegh Bittner is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with six years building reliable backend systems and full-stack features for high-throughput consumer products. She has deep hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, having implemented a city-block level dynamic pricing system using H3, Redis Streams, and AWS for real-time decisions. Kayliegh routinely spans backend, frontend, and data concerns—optimizing Postgres performance, resolving Kafka reliability issues, and shipping React/Next.js interfaces with strong test coverage. She also develops open-source tooling (kafkaVision) to simplify Kafka observability and uses TypeScript to keep codebases maintainable for future contributors. Known for cross-functional collaboration, she translates product and data needs into production-ready services and documentation that prevent repeat incidents. Her background in education and freelance work underscores a pragmatic focus on performance, UX, and measurable business impact.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, EDUCATION, Master's degree, EDUCATION at Universidad de Alcalá
Bachelor of Arts, Latin American Studies, Bachelor of Arts, Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
Spanish