Kristen Starr
Economic Mobility Fellow at The Aspen Institute
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Starr is an engineering and operations leader with 15+ years building resilient teams and systems at the nexus of technology and social impact. An MIT-trained engineer, she scaled Indeed’s Trust & Safety org from a handful to 50+ roles, led company-wide accessibility strategy, and shaped engineering operations as a senior leader focused on developer wellbeing and measurable business impact. Selected as an Aspen Institute Economic Mobility Fellow, she brings a policy-minded lens to product accessibility and workforce inclusion, treating job platforms as levers for economic opportunity. As founder and executive director of Sunday Lunchbox, she runs a hands-on 501(c)(3) tackling childhood food insecurity while maintaining a strong track record of mentoring engineers and embedding equity into technical roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (20)
search-engine10
java10
rest9
restful9
elasticsearch9
rest-api8
parsing8
swagger8
swagger-codegen7
openapi6
visualizations6
elastic5
kibana5
open-source5
observability5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kristenfelch/februaryDO
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:14 PRs, 20 pushes, 17 branches in 4 days
elastic/swagger-codegen
May 2017 - Jul 2017
swagger-codegen contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition.
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 month
openapiparsingswaggerswagger-codegen
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