# Katie N.

> Senior Software Engineer at Airship

Location: Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/katien

I am a full stack developer with 7+ years of experience in backend, frontend, and even devops. From setting up and maintaining infrastructure in AWS and GCP, to writing RESTful APIs in Python and TypeScript, to developing beautiful web apps with JavaScript, React, and Node.js, I love working anywhere in the stack and creating something great. I love to learn and keep growing my skills.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Airship
Jan 2024 – Present | Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ FLINTpro
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Denver, Colorado, United States
- Architect and develop a greenfield JavaScript and React web app using Node.js and Next.js for carbon accounting simulations
- Implement spatial visualizations of simulation results using OpenLayers for mapping
- Develop microservices in Python and improve runtime stability
- Utilize GCP Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Kubernetes Engine, and Firebase
- Work across teams with diverse experience and backgrounds to develop solutions

### Software Engineer @ DEPT®
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Denver, Colorado, United States
- Contribute to an educational web app with a JavaScript and React front end and TypeScript back end, both utilizing Node.js
- Design cohesive and capable APIs for data processing and database management
- Refactor parts of the app’s back end to improve response time from 3 seconds to less than 300 milliseconds
- Implement reporting section of the app with data visualizations and downloadable CSV reports
- Utilize AWS Lambda, S3 storage, RDS, CloudFront, Cognito, and others

### Software Engineer @ Maxar Technologies
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Denver, Colorado, United States
I worked in the commercial side of the company.

- Develop scalable RESTful services in Python to process satellite imagery mosaics and geospatial data
- Develop robust and user friendly front ends using JavaScript and React
- Reduce processing time for mosaics from 3+ days to less than 12 hours
- Design cohesive and capable APIs and create libraries for rapid development of services, data processing, and database management
- Work with AWS EC2 instances, S3 storage, Step Functions, Batch, Lambda, DynamoDB, and others
- Work with large datasets - process several terabyte mosaics with 40,000+ files for customer usage

### Engineering Network Services - Computer Lab Technician @ Colorado State University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Fort Collins, Colorado
- Contribute to a software distribution and asset management tool to manage over 300 machines
- Maintain a server for computer maintenance and troubleshooting tools, task sequence-driven imaging
- Develop scripts and programs for use in engineering computer labs
- Troubleshoot and fix engineering software and networking issues

### Software Engineering Intern @ BIT Systems
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Aurora, Colorado
- Contribute to a JavaScript data visualization web app
- Design and implement a client side, large-scale GIF generator with frame delta calculation
- Decrease GIF file size from 50+ MB in previous versions to about 100 KB, all while increasing processing speed
- Set up and maintain a GeoServer WMTS and PostgreSQL database for OpenStreetMap data


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Applied Computer Technology
Colorado State University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kdmnance

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Last updated: 2026-03-22