Tara Regan
Back End Engineer at Kiva
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTara Regan is a Back End Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, well-tested server-side systems and observability at Kiva, where she also redesigned email delivery pipelines and messaging to improve deliverability and monitoring. She combines a strong QA automation background with hands-on backend development, database management, API design, and Kafka-based integrations, ensuring production stability and actionable alerts. Her career uniquely blends rigorous scientific research and lab discipline—rooted in neuroscience and field biology—with software engineering, leading to meticulous documentation, reproducible processes, and thoughtful root-cause analysis. Based in Denver, she is motivated by human wellbeing and environmental impact, and brings an eye for organization that consistently turns complex systems into auditable, user-focused solutions.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Brain Behavior and Cognitive Science, Bachelor's of Science, Brain Behavior and Cognitive Science at University of MichiganCornell University
English, Spanish, Amharic
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Github Skills (6)
isomorphic9
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vuex8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
siromivel/hempchain
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 day
SqueakAttack/Battleship
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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