Tabitha Katz
Senior Software Engineer at Upstart
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolTabitha Katz is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland with 6 years of experience specializing in backend systems, platform integrity, and operational resilience in fintech. Rapidly promoted from intern to senior in 3.5 years, she architects fraud detection and instant decisioning platforms that prioritize millisecond-level accuracy and reliability. She emphasizes clean, testable code and pragmatic architecture—balancing speed, compliance, and observability to prevent repeat incidents. A practiced incident commander and deployment coordinator, she drives cross-functional remediation and long-term fixes while mentoring engineers and improving onboarding to shorten time-to-productivity. Tabitha also leverages AI coding tools as a force multiplier, applying domain knowledge to guide safe, compliant implementations. Outside of work she tends bees and gardens, a detail-oriented hobby set that mirrors her systems-thinking and stewardship in engineering.
6 years of coding experience
Foundations Graduate, Software Engineering, Foundations Graduate, Software Engineering at Holberton School
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Github Skills (17)
convex7
backend7
react7
visualization6
interactive5
herokuapp5
git4
typescript4
rust4
database4
python3
napalm3
openweathermap2
docker2
postgresql2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tabbykatz/holberton-system_engineering-devops
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:311 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
tabbykatz/holbertonschool-low_level_programming
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:437 commits, 427 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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