Summary
Kristina Hager is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, impact-driven systems. Based in Draper, Utah, she blends deep technical expertise—from C/C++ memory profiling and transistor-level timing early in her career to modern cloud, CI/CD, chaos engineering, and Backstage platform work at Indeed—with pragmatic product-minded leadership. She has repeatedly taken ownership of messy, high-impact problems, designing incremental roadmaps that balance delivery timelines and technical debt while growing other technical leads. Notable accomplishments include architecting an event-driven pipeline unifying test data across on-prem and serverless CI systems and driving company-wide backstage.io adoption to replace bespoke internal tooling. Kristina is equally comfortable shipping code, shaping roadmap strategy, and mentoring teams, and she seeks a technical lead role or engineering management position in a small organization where she can multiply engineer effectiveness.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
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