Katie Downie
Senior Software Engineer at Skylight
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Downie is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience who blends a humanities background and full-stack training to solve practical problems and mentor teammates. Based in Minneapolis, she transitioned from the arts into software after completing Prime Digital Academy, bringing strong communication and collaboration skills to product-focused engineering. Katie thrives in cross-functional teams, prioritizing user-centered solutions and continuous learning while shipping reliable code at Skylight. An urbanist and world traveler, she brings curiosity and pattern-seeking from hobbies like crosswords into readable, maintainable design decisions that help teams move faster.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Arts (M.A.) at Saint Mary's University of MinnesotaBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Macalester CollegeFull Stack Software Engineering Certification, Full Stack Software Engineering Certification at Prime Digital Academy
Github Skills (13)
data-api10
javascript9
open-source9
nextjs8
ssas7
jshint6
htmx5
analysis-services5
golang3
java3
linter2
cdc2
go2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
katyasoup/REST-scheduler-api
Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
Backend code challenge + my first time writing in Go!
Contributions:4 PRs, 41 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 11 months
golangbackend
katyasoup/katyasoup.github.io
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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