katie grundl
software engineer currently focused on front-end development including EmberJS and Angular.
well known in community as the Chapter Leader of Milwaukee’s Girl Develop It where I organize social meetups and teach programming classes. With strong communication, leadership and creative skills, I am able to interface with a multitude of skill levels making me a vital asset to any team.
experience
Software Engineer
shoretel - corvisa / Milwaukee / 2015 - Present
I am a Software Engineer at Shoretel, a leading provider of IP phone systems and unified communications solutions. I am responsible for making sure requirements are properly documented and developing features in an efficient manner to ensure quality code.
- Developed EmberJS application using TDD and consumed restful APIs
- Upgraded entire application to Ember 2.X
- Updated existing features to include unit and integration tests in order to ensure future stability of product
- Maintained and triaged bugs in existing Angular 1.X application
- Participated in architecting the new tech stack via thorough analyzation of React, Angular2 and Ember
- Participated in scrum ceremonies, interfacing with cross-functional teams, writing/refining stories to ensure technical and UX details are documented
Chapter Leader
girl develop it / Milwaukee / 2014 - Present
I am the Chapter Leader for Milwaukee Girl Develop It, a national non-profit aimed to provide affordable, non-judgmental programming courses to adult women.
- Lead and maintain local chapter, ensuring monthly social meetup events and bi-monthly education opportunities
- Encourage and empower members to learn programming
- Grew our chapter to 400+ members while maintaining consistent increase of attendance to monthly meetups
- Organize and teach the GDI curriculum for intro classes like web concepts, HTML, CSS and JS
- Ensure our members receive the best content, local opportunities, are connected with the right people and always feel comfortable participating in classes by mentoring our volunteers