Kristin Clemens
Senior Software Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKristin Clemens is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems for large-scale retail operations at Target, specializing in fulfillment, store-level tooling, and near real-time metrics platforms. She has deep practical expertise in Vanilla Kotlin and transitioning teams from Java SpringBoot to frameworkless backend applications, notably enabling Ship-from-Store and Last Mile Delivery integrations. Prior roles span reliability engineering and high-performance computing, where she cut test runtimes dramatically and automated operational recovery to save hundreds of manual hours per month. An avid open-source contributor, she has improved and localized Questie, a popular World of Warcraft Classic addon, fixing quest data and multilingual dialog to benefit global users. Kristin combines pragmatic engineering with operational savvy, consistently turning complex integration challenges into reliable, production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Engineering at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Questie/Questie
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Questie: The WoW Classic quest helper
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kristin primarily contributed to fixing quest-related data and making improvements to the Questie addon for World of Warcraft Classic. They addressed issues with NPC drops, objective locations, and quest start locations by modifying Lua files that contain quest and item fixes. Additionally, the user worked on localizing the addon by adding or updating auto-dialog options in multiple language configuration files.
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kristinclemens/Questie
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Questie: the vanilla quest helper
Contributions:20 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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