# Kat Bajno-Atkinson > Senior Software Engineer at Stripe Location: Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/katbajnoatkinson Software Engineer with a passion for life-long learning, stream-lining processes, documentation, and improving developer experiences. Experienced with all stages of the full-stack development life-cycle, from gathering requirements to releasing to market. I have a talent for learning quickly. Within my few years at OpenSesame, I have rapidly picked up new languages and understood our complicated legacy system, now being a subject matter expert for many of my teams services. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2023 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2021 – Present ### Software Engineer II @ OpenSesame Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Portland, Oregon Area • Lead engineer for an Identity Initiative for the past two years. Go-to person for all matters involving authentication and authorization including username/password, SSO, SAML, and service to service flows. Architected and implemented services and patterns for auth used by other teams in the organization. • Advocated for, designed, and implemented our CI/CD pipeline for application, infrastructure, and library repositories utilizing GitHub Actions. Introduced a workflow with a focus on streamlining the time to release and improving developer experience. • Built numerous APIs utilizing API Gateway and AWS Lambda secured with JWT Authorizers with a focus on documentation and re-usability of patterns to accelerate future API development. The patterns implemented allowed for spinning up a new API in minutes. • Designed and handled the extraction of a package ingestion service from a PHP and .NET monolith to a microservice utilizing AWS State Machines, Lambda, and event-based SQS messaging. ### Associate Software Engineer @ OpenSesame Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Portland, Oregon Area • Was the Epic Champion for 15+ features where I had to collaborate cross-functionally with teams to gather requirements, design, story, and implement said features. • Identified areas of acceleration for the team, such as improving time to commit by 50% through implementing pre-commit script that only lints staged files. • Became a sought-after design contributor and source of knowledge for the team. ### Software Development Intern @ CDK Global Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Portland, Oregon Area • Responsible for rewriting and laying down the framework to update an internal application used by about 100 employees. • Created the UI using React.js and Redux, and the RESTful API using ASP.NET Core 2.1, C#, and PostgreSQL. Implemented an UI component for an audio transcription service using React. ### Information Technology Production at Disability Access Services @ Oregon State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Corvallis, Oregon • In charge of maintenance and updates of all computers and technology in department. • Managed department email and edited informational posters when needed. ### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Oregon State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Corvallis, Oregon • Assisted in students learning of C++/C and Python. • Taught labs and held office and grading hours for students. • Worked with professor and other teaching assistants to create assignments. ### Captioning Worker @ Oregon State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Corvallis, Oregon • Worked with a team to caption videos in an efficient manner under strict deadlines. ### Sales Associate @ Gap Inc./ Banana Republic Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Westbury, New York • Multi-tasked between assisting customers and completing assigned projects. • Resolved customer conflict quickly and with initiative. • Provided training to new employees to uphold company policies and sustain customer satisfaction. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Oregon State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kat-bajno-atkinson-089a65149 --- Source: https://flows.cv/katbajnoatkinson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/katbajnoatkinson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22