Kristen Loyd
Manager Of Academic Initiatives
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Loyd is a software engineer and education leader based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building curriculum, managing technical programs, and shipping product features. She has blended hands-on engineering work—updating NodeJS back-office tools, Shopify Liquid templates, and server tooling—with strategic academic product launches, including leading a 30-person rebrand and creating 35 course lesson plans. As Manager of Academic Initiatives she coordinates vendors, accreditation-ready program design, and employer partnerships to align training with local labor market needs. Her background as a Resident Software Engineer and Curriculum Lead gives her practical classroom experience mentoring students in C, Python, SQL, and systems tooling while maintaining curriculum quality. Currently completing a full‑stack software engineering program, she’s actively pursuing junior/backend roles and internships to translate education leadership into production engineering impact. Colleagues describe her as a bridge between pedagogy and product—equally comfortable debugging code or redesigning an operational workflow.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Diablo Valley CollegeComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Holberton SchoolBachelor's Degree, Liberal and Civic Studies: Education, Bachelor's Degree, Liberal and Civic Studies: Education at Saint Mary's College of California
Github Skills (5)
react3
rest-api2
api2
restful2
restful-api1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KRLoyd/hbtn_python_tests
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
KRLoyd/holberton-system_engineering-devops
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:150 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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