Katie Clausman
Lead Engineer at CarNow
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Clausman is a lead engineer with over a decade of experience architecting scalable, data-driven systems and modernizing monoliths into microservices. She combines hands-on expertise in Scala, Go, Python, Java/Kotlin, and JavaScript with a measured, data-first approach that prioritizes reliability and customer impact. At nDimensional she built the engineering foundation as the company’s first hire, delivering 40x workflow speedups via Spark optimizations and building RAG-based chatbots that materially improved accuracy and business outcomes. She mentors distributed teams, teaches and advises—volunteering with Girls Who Code and serving as an external advisor to Iowa State’s Software Engineering department—bringing a persistent focus on developer growth and cross-functional collaboration. Now leading engineering at CarNow and contributing to Azure Guest Configuration work on GitHub, she thrives at the intersection of AI, big data, and cloud-native engineering. A pragmatic systems thinker, she often blends research-driven solutions with production-hardened pragmatism to turn messy, high-dimensional data into actionable products.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Johnston High SchoolBachelor of Science Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Software Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (78)
hyper-v10
exchange-server10
sccm10
windows10
reportserver10
failover10
microsoft-azure10
dsc10
microsoft-exchange10
dns10
webserver10
iis10
namespaces10
credssp10
reporting-services10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dsccommunity/xWinEventLog
Jul 2016 - Apr 2019
THIS MODULE HAS BEEN DEPRECATED Please use ComputerManagementDsc instead: https://github.com/PowerShell/ComputerManagementDsc
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 9 months
powershell
dsccommunity/xSqlPs
May 2016 - Jul 2017
THIS MODULE HAS BEEN DEPRECATED Please use SqlServerDsc instead: https://github.com/PowerShell/SqlServerDsc
Contributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
powershell
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