# Kara Bernert

> Staff Engineer @ Vitally.io

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kara

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Vitally
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026

### Senior Engineering Manager @ Vitally
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

### Engineering Manager @ Vitally
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Sr. Product Engineer @ Vitally
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer @ Gust
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | New York, NY
Engineering & Development 
- Developed features for and maintained large-scale web apps in various languages & frameworks using Agile processes, BDD, TDD, and pair and individual programming
- Jointly introduced React/Redux and Elm to better structure app JavaScript; helped onboard team members unfamiliar with the frameworks
- Led efforts to increase the development speed and quality of UI in various applications by addressing technical debt, improving workflows, and increasing communication between designers & devs
- Led effort to unify the UI of multiple applications with different tech stacks under the Gust brand with consistent, easily maintainable styles & UX patterns through shared code & styleguides 

Experiments & Data 
- Led the technical implementation and guided the design of marketing and product experiments pertaining to growth, engagement, & user experience
- Managed all technical requirements for ongoing sales & marketing experimentation around a newly released product, including analytics combining application data, HubSpot APIs, & Google Analytics
- Created & maintained reporting dashboards to monitor company-level OKRs & individual project goals
- Assisted with the design and execution of a 3-month market research project to inform SaaS product repackaging, which drove 2-3x increase in sales of higher-tier products

Leadership & People 
- Managed 3-to-6-person cross-discipline teams that took projects from ideation through delivery: coordinated btw. disciplines; wrote stories; lead sprint planning; delivered technical features on time
- Managed and assisted with tech hiring: wrote code challenges, screened candidates, scheduled and completed technical interviews
- Defined and refined quarterly OKRs at company and team levels
- Updated product management processes with a small team to better support empirically-backed product roadmapping and increase project management transparency
- Led a collective exercise to reshape company culture and policies

### Technical Research Assistant II @ Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA
- Basic maintenance/breeding of multiple mouse colonies
- Murine microsurgeries
- HPLC
- Biochemical spectrophotometric assays for various lipids and proteins
- Genotyping: PCR & gel electrophoresis
- Western blotting 
- Isolation & analysis of subcellular structures via ultracentrifugation 
- Minimal supervision
- Research and adaptation of protocols from the scientific literature
- Collaboration with other research labs


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Chemistry and Women's and Gender Studies
Wellesley College
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012

### Exchange Program
Bowdoin College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010

### French Language and Literature in Biostatistics
Harvard Extension School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kara-bernert-669a5342
- Website: https://karabernert.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22