Katie McCormick

Director of Engineering

Chicago, Illinois, United States11 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building accessible and performant applications.
Proven track record in team leadership and mentoring.
Strong advocate for inclusive design and development practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with a strong emphasis on accessibility and team development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Performance ManagementTeam LeadershipTypescriptReactNode.jsSassRails

Other Skills

Software Project ManagementManagementAccessibilityDesign SystemGraphQLReact NativeReduxNodePostgresjQueryPythonPHPLinguisticsTeachingPublic Speaking

About

An experienced technologist with a passion for performant, beautiful applications and seamless UX, I lead teams to create modular, functional products with accessible, responsive interfaces. I work across teams to build inclusion, systems-thinking and scalability into every stage of design and development. I believe regular collaboration creates better developers who communicate and understand their code base on a deeper level, and I have a record of mentoring and leading team members toward best practices and common standards.

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Github

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

Developed a newly-founded team, established rituals and norms of working. Handled career growth coaching, performance management, and communication practices. Established strategy for scale.
Shipped internal scoring system for GitHub's accessibility initiatives, collaborated with program management and delivered clarity around requirements and mechanisms for accessibility standards in the code.
Co-launched and co-managed GitHub's Accessibility Champions program, distributing accessibility knowledge and work throughout the company.
Managed team of remote accessibility engineers, responsible for career development, reviews, promotions, etc. Guided technical decisions. Established quarterly goals with engineering leadership, broke down work into executables, and reported on deliverables.

Performance ManagementSoftware Project ManagementManagementAccessibilityTeam Leadership

Senior Software Engineer, Accessibility

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 · 3 mos

Hellofresh

2 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos

Lead for the Country Launch Frontend squad.
Spearheaded a codebase migration to Typescript, standardization of design system internals, and an internal Accessibility upgrade to the Whitelabel platform with the Engineering teams.

TypeScriptDesign SystemAccessibility

Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead

Sep 2020 – Jun 2021 · 9 mos

Led Factor_ Digital Product team through major product and performance improvements to enable merging with HelloFresh digital products.
React, Typescript, GraphQL, a11y

ReactTypeScriptGraphQL

Circadian risk inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2019 – Sep 2020 · 9 mos · Ann Arbor, Michigan (Remote)

Thinkful

Developer Mentor

Aug 2018 – Mar 2019 · 7 mos

Pigknows

Lead Developer

May 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Denver Area (Remote)

Lead developer of principle software, both web-based and native applications.
Integrated PigKnows products with i18 / Locize for maintainable internationalization of our applications used worldwide.
Upgraded 10+ year old legacy system to modern stack and UX.
Node, Typescript, GraphQL, React, React Native

Node.jsTypeScriptGraphQLReactReact Native

Ideas by nature

Lead Front End Developer

Jun 2017 – Apr 2018 · 10 mos · Denver, CO

Digital agency work with numerous clients
Stack incl.: React, Redux, Node, Postgres, Sass, ES6+, Webpack
Primary developer of front-end internal open-source libraries
Spearheaded internal code guidelines project to standardize code quality and review
Regularly consulted across departments and projects to solve development and UX problems

Reformation

Javascript Developer

Apr 2017 – Jun 2017 · 2 mos · Remote

Short term contract updating e-commerce platform and other business-related products.
Stack Incl.: Rails, jQuery, ES5, Python.

ReactReduxNodePostgresSass

Boyd caton group, inc.

Full Stack Developer

Jun 2016 – Mar 2017 · 9 mos · Remote

Developed applications with remote development team using current technologies
Executed React & Redux front-end in ES6, with Babel, Gulp, Webpack, and Node
Government contract work adhering to Section 508 and WCAG2 Level AA accessibility
API-based backend written in PHP with Laravel & Symfony, using Doctrine and MySQL
Custom SCSS styling written with BEM-IT naming conventions following atomic design
Coordinated with UI/UX, Design, and QA teams

RailsjQueryPython

Self-employed

Contract Web Developer

Aug 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos

ReactReduxNodePHP

Kalamazoo public schools

Literacy Tutor - Full-time

Sep 2012 – Feb 2013 · 5 mos

Engaging students from four inner city 2nd grade classrooms in regular literacy activities, (i.e. phonics, reading interventions, etc.) and assessing proficiency and progress to ensure growth and retention