# Catherine Lavin

> Front End Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/catherinelavin

Full stack software engineer with 5+ years experience and a penchant for front-end development. I enjoy working in a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth as an engineer. Formerly a chemist, I bring strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Skills: JavaScript, React, Typescript, Next.js, Redux, HTML, CSS, React Query, React Testing Library, Jest, Storybook, React Hook Form, Zod, Yup, Python, Flask, Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Agile, Git

## Work Experience
### Front End Software Engineer @ MonetaGo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, NY
• Built features for web applications to digitize bank processes and reduce fraud in financial transactions for international clients
• Led and implemented epic to allow editing of uploaded CSV/JSON files, crafting reducers that work with a complex API, writing forms with React Hook Form and Zod validations, and styling pages with Material UI based on Figma wireframes
• Created and owned the user management page, implementing CRUD operations using Formik and Yup validations, to display user information and roles
• Overhauled the application’s state management for ease of adding new features while maintaining core functionality
• Interfaced with engineers and product team on feature implementation to fulfill product requirements on a geographically distributed, fully remote team

### Front-end/UI Developer @ Lucera Financial Infrastructures
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
• Developed features for a greenfield, websocket-based web application to trade US treasuries at high speed
• Owned a significant portion of the application, allowing for placing and controlling trades, and viewing data at update speeds up to 250ms
• Aided in a component library initiative based on Ant Design components
• Regularly communicated with product manager and designer on story progress,
feature implementation, and strategic output in an agile sprint structure

### Product Engineer @ °Nomad Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States
• Converted user profile forms written in WTForms to React and Redux Form
• Wrote Enzyme unit tests for various features to increase application test coverage
• Worked closely with design to build resilient, responsive emails using Jinja templates
and tested across different email providers using Litmus
• Collaborated with front-end engineers on the creation of a design system, composing
stories for commonly used components with Storybook

### Full Stack Developer @ Cognizant
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York, United States
• Worked on internal tools for job placements, wrote unit and acceptance tests, and ran automated testing using Nightmare on a full stack JavaScript application
• Completed Platform Acceleration Lab course on microservices and cloud computing

### Student @ Flatiron School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York
Software engineering immersive program.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Syracuse University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017
• Synthesized novel air-sensitive organometallic compounds and analyzed their structures to understand their formation
• Performed computational modeling and theoretical calculations and determined trends for molecular binding energies
• Gave oral and poster presentations on research results at national and regional American Chemical Society meetings

### Teaching Assistant @ Syracuse University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017
• Instructed undergraduate students in general chemistry and forensic science laboratories demonstrating proper lab technique and teaching how to critically analyze results
• Gave prelab lectures illustrating the connection between lecture concepts and the laboratory experiment 
• Fielded questions from students in office hours to facilitate their understanding of lecture material

### Chemistry Department X-ray Facility Administrator @ Syracuse University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
• Repaired the single crystal X-ray diffractometer and associated equipment
• Implemented regular maintenance schedule for the instrument reducing its downtime
• Trained new users in the proper usage of the instrument, which allowed them to independently analyze their samples

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ The University of Arizona
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
• Synthesized transition metal compounds using Schlenk line and glove box techniques
• Performed computational modeling and theoretical calculations on a supercomputer


## Education
### PhD Candidate in Inorganic Chemistry
Syracuse University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017

### Full Stack Web Development
Flatiron School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Master of Philosophy - MPhil in Chemistry
Syracuse University

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Chemistry
University of Arizona
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cmlavin
- Website: http://www.catherinelavin.com/
- GitHub: http://github.com/cmlavin

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Last updated: 2026-03-23