KAITLIN BERRYMAN

Full-Stack Software Engineer Passionate about Democracy & Climate-Tech

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About

I have extensive backgrounds in both politics & engineering. I started at 5 years old, handing out "I Voted" stickers to everyone at my local polling location all-day & then volunteering for Youth-at-the-Booth with my Dad. I started robotics & programming in 2014. In college, I studied Electrical Engineering. I started my engineering career in Climate Tech, fighting for our environment. I aim to apply my strategic problem-solving skills to my 2 core missions:

Democracy

Avid volunteer for Accomack & Northampton County Democratic Committees. Sole Field Organizer on the 70-mile-long Virginia Eastern Shore (45k residents) for the Spanberger, Hashmi, Jones campaign.

Climate Tech

- Software Engineer @ Gaia AI -- Lead web & mobile dev
- Applications Engineer @ Laminar (formerly H2Ok Innovations) -- Founded Deployments Team & led multi-million-dollar contracts (~35 facilities)
- Greentown Labs community

County Crops Mobile App

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Virtual farmer's market for iOS & Android
Figma, JavaScript, React Native

Fungi Citizen Science Mobile App

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Automated species discovery
Figma, JavaScript, React Native

Custom Guitar
Distortion Pedal

Circuitry, breadboarding, soldering

Augmented Reality Virtual Button

Used C#, Unity, and Vuforia to create motion-dependent marker-based AR demo with trigger

Gesture Detection for
Smart Car

Used C++ and Leap Motion's sensor to control car's music & display for CSH Smart Car

Amazon Clone

JavaScript, React, CRA, React Router, Context APl, React, Components, Firebase/Google Auth & Hosting
& DB, Stripe, Express, JSX, env vars

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Medium Clone

TypeScript, JS, Next.js, Sanity CMS, React, Tailwind
CSS 3.0, ISR, SSR, React Hook Form, JSX, built-in API,
Vercel, Components

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Netflix Clone

JavaScript, React, TMDB API,
CRA, Firebase Hosting,
Components, react-youtube via npm, movie-tralier via npm


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Spotify Clone

JavaScript, React, Next.js12, Tailwind CSS, Recoil,
Middleware, NextAuth, Spotify API, Debounce, Custom Hooks, Components

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Uber Clone

React Native, Redux, Tailwind CSS, RN Navigation, RN
Maps, Google's Directions API, Places API, Distance
Matrix API, Google Autocomplete

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Fam App

JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Firebase v9,
NextAuth, Faker.js & Recoil



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DIY LISP

Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL), tokenizer/parser, S-
expression evaluator, DIY language in C

DIY Plasma Cutter & 3D Printers

Built by FRC & FTC robotics teams. Lead CAD mentor

Instant Robot Chassis CAD

Used C# to create a GUI adjusting parameter-dependent Autodesk Inventor files

Magic the Gathering Dashboard

Flask, WTForms, SQLAlchemy, Bcrypt, Scryfall API,
TailwindCSS, Jinja2, HTML, CSS

Chat App

Server / Client bi-directional chat app with users with Node, Express, Socket.io, Websockets & qs

Skills

Software Engineering Tools

JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, C++, C, VHDL

React, React Native, Node, Next.js, Express, Tailwind CSS, D3, Jest, Redux

Plotly, Pandas, Flask, Django

UI, UX, CX, Figma, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Stripe, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker, Kubernetes, Shell Scripting, Vim, A/B Testing, Statsig, Postman, Falco, Mapbox, REST APIs, GitHub Copilot, Scrum, Jira, Ubuntu, git

Testimonials (LinkedIn)

Kaitlin is full of Exceptional talent!!! No matter what you put in front of her she will figure it out and as being a self starter she will get things done without supervision !!! I recommend and endorse Kaitlin to take any challenges put in front of her!!!

Bob Jones

Sr. Manager of Program Management at NASA 2013 - 2021

Kaitlin's energy, positivity, and relentless curiosity make her an excellent contributor to the culture of any workspace. She shows tremendous empathy both for customers and her fellow developers. Working to truly understand the customer's needs and pain points to craft helpful solutions while simultaneously acting as a "rubber duck" for coworkers grappling with code issues.

Matthew Carpenter

Co-Founder & Head of Product at Gaia AI -- Forbes 30 Under 30

Kaitlin has an incredible amount of energy and passion for her work. She cares deeply about user experience and creating responsive front-end designs. Her energy was infectious in the office and helped keep everything bright and light!

Acshi Haggenmiller

Robotics PhD

Kaitlin brought an incredible energy to the team that made the office a happier place. She helped everyone look forward to showing up to work. She is a capable frontend developer and extends herself to help the people around her, from having meetings with our designer to help align designs with implementation and sync up on the same timeline to prepare for deadlines, to helping lead discussions on our database schema. Anyone who gets to work with Kaitlin will be lucky!

Peter McHale

Co-Founder & CEO of Gaia AI -- MIT -- Forbes 30 Under 30

Kaitlin embodies an impressive combination of enthusiasm, creativity, drive, and self-awareness. She works well independently, but isn't afraid to seek guidance when necessary, as evidenced by her quick implementation of a graphical web application from a vague spec I provided, with only minimal guidance from me. Her passion for the projects she takes on is contagious, and she has a natural talent for inspiring and motivating others on her team. Kaitlin always eager to learn and explore new things. She would be an asset to any software development team.

Jeff Meunier

Sr. Software Engineer & Adjunct Professor

Kaitlin is an energetic and creative engineer who loves the next challenge. She was certainly a positive cultural addition to our company, and her personality is infectious. She brings a positive attitude and will infuse the entire team with the notion that anything is possible. It is a joy to work with Kaitlin and she brings not only engineer skills, but also project management and creative design skills. I hope I have the pleasure of working with Kaitlin again.

Brain Geisel

Founder & CEO of Symage & Geisel Software

Kaitlin worked as my manager at Color Me Mine, Norfolk, and did an amazing job at maintaining both a hard-working and fun-loving environment. She is a people person and always prioritizes the best interest of her employees as well as her customers -- and she is also incredibly friendly and keeps spirits high even under times of stress! Kaitlin has so much to offer and would be an incredible asset to any team or workspace. Kaitlin, thank you for all your help and everything that you do for us at the studio. I appreciate you!!

Lydia Del Olmo

Executive Assistant

I met Kaitlin back in high school, during First Robotics. She wasn't even on my team, yet she was helpful, knowledgeable, and, as someone more experienced to the sport, gave me quite a few pointers that helped me a lot going forward with my robotics.

A year later, and she joined CSH along with me and instantly got involved. She has an impressive drive to learn and to get stuff done. After a busy freshman year, she joined CSH's E-Board her sophomore year as Research and Development, helping people complete projects by encouraging seminars, hackathons, connecting members with compatible skill sets, and purchasing some serious hardware for the org.

Kaitlin is not only a talent engineer, she's a collaborator, and a leader. She has a diverse technical skillset that she has employed not just in CSH, but in the larger RIT community. Being on a powerhouse robotics team was just a warmup for her.

Will Nilges

Backend Programmer @ Datadog

I was always excited about what Kaitlin would bring to the table at any time we talked or worked together. When we studied together at RIT, she was the Project Director for Computer Science House (CSH) and helped me with my major project for the year. Her intelligent insight was always amazing to hear, and I loved working with her as someone I could look up to for help. I was constantly in awe at how confidently she could talk and convince a room full of her peers about her ideas, even if many of them were not on the same page at the beginning. Kaitlin's dazzling personality would be a tragedy to miss in any workplace, and any job would be lucky to have such a hard worker on their team.

Dani Saba

Senior Privacy & Compliance Analyst -- MS in Cybersecurity

Kaitlin has acted as the Research and Development Director for our organization, and during her time as that role she did an excellent job. Kaitlin kept members of the organization interested in doing new projects and provided them with opportunities to work and learn from senior members of the organization. Once projects were started or completed, she catalogued all of them in an actively updated document so that all members of the organization could know the current status of various projects. Kaitlin is hard working, efficient, enthusiastic, and a pleasure to work with.

Matthew Sze-Tu

Software Developer

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