Katherine Leipper

Infrastructure Engineer


Present:

Cloud Engineer @Bluebot (Feb 2024-)


IaC: Terraform, Crossplane, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef

AWS: EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, OpsWorks, SNS, SQS, Parameter Store, Cloudwatch, Cloudfront, API Gateway, Route53, VPC, Certificate Manager, CI/CD: Github Actions, Buildkite, CircleCI, TravisCI

Databases: Postgres, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB

Web: Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript (React, Redux, Angular 2, ES6), NodeJS


Past:

Senior Software Engineer, Backend/DevOps -> Infrastructure Engineering Manager @ AllTrails (2020-2022)

AWS Certified Developer Associate (Credential ID: NZ1XDQY2GJREQTG3, Exp. 2023)

Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) @ Bugcrowd (2019-2020, previously full stack engineer 2017-2019)

Software Engineer @ Ayzenberg (2016-2017), Cappa Health (2015), Coupa (2012-2014)

Tech Mentor @ Black Girls Code (2015)

Instructor @ TechShop (2015)


Misc:

In the past I attended DefCon in Las Vegas semi-regularly, and was part of a small team that created an electronic badge.

I have several biohacker implants, including anNFC chip.

Amateur Radio Technician License (call sign KM6YYV)

Experienced open water swimmer:

I enjoy travelling to unusual places. Some favorites include:

In a previous life, I studied Graphic Design at CalArts


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Updated Oct 2024