Kathrin Ayer Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Managing a talented team of front-end and full stack engineers who build the internal tools for Payroll.

New York, Ny, Us

Admitted to the Recurse Center in New York for 3 months of exploration, learning, coding with a community of software engineers.Projects include:- pipeline to consume pushes from one repo in the generation of a readme in another- developing services for managing a repository of verbs and consuming those verbs, first stored in MongoDB, but planning to migrate to MySQL when the schemas are settled- working in an NX monorepo to understand its approach to module sharing as well as support for Node and Deno- Django chat app- Node module development- NextJS app that consumes multiple feeds

San Francisco, California, Us

Focused on the internal developer experience at Vercel as a manager:- migrated from Cypress to Playwright, reduced flakiness to under 1%, eliminated support costs and created tooling to increase visibility- reduced the time to complete code quality checks by 40%- met with GitHub's merge queue team for feedback- normalized build settings in the API monorepo in preparation for a migration to pnpm, and eventually a merge into the main monorepo- 2 design system effortsRan our external QA effort:- onboarded the QA team to Vercel’s UI needs- stood up processes for collaborating with the QA team- onboarded internal users to maximize utilityInitially integrated internal DX with Spaces (merged two teams, realigned priorities, unified team documentation).Researched and selected our software productivity platform, and onboarded engineering managers to the platform.Presented roadmaps and initiatives, migrated the team onto Linear and project planning, wrote up and socialized internal roadmap proposals, and created visual aids to explain quality processes as related to build processes.

Arlington, Va, Us

Developed the engineering roadmap for the design system. Collaborated with leadership to identify opportunities, coordinated with stakeholders, established milestones and long-term direction. Worked with senior management on inner-open-source, socialization, funding, and business strategy. Coordinated with stakeholders and consumers in other BUs to develop solutions and provide support for design systems within their organizations.Drove the creation of new engineering deliverables to respond to internal and external needs. Provided tactical and strategic plans spanning quarters and years. Drove the prioritization of engineering value in the assets and pay-down of technical debt. Prepared for migration onto a CMS for EDX interface needs.Responsible for team and career development for the front-end group, securing educational support, creating opportunities for engineers to present to their peers and leaders, arranging informational interviews within the company and mentoring.Presented to potential interns and junior engineers to encourage interest in joining the EDX for a rotation in Raytheon’s Digital Leadership program.Ran the engineering standards group for two years, to establish and maintain guidelines, including coordinating with our in-house technical writer to generate business-friendly documentation.

Arlington, Va, Us

Worked with DevOps to go from quarterly to at-will releases (approved by DevOps), and to go from our P5 instance to AWS to Corporate’s Azure.Established a workflow to allow engineers to trigger deploys up to the final production release.Led a rotating team of 2-10 engineers, ranging in skill from intern to principle engineer. Provided guidance and support to project and product management. Added regression testing, including visual regression using Puppeteer on local machines and Selenium Grid in our QA environment.Wrote the accelerator’s code review policy, emphasizing collaboration and knowledge sharing.Assessed Rust and Deno for use within the EDX. Screened all front-end and front-end-focused full-stack candidates, refined and maintained the hiring process, conducted the code-review section of the on-site, wrote job descriptions, coordinated with Corporate and our internal recruiter to fill positions. Coordinated efforts with the IOT team in Collins, and deployment teams in Otis and P&W.

Arlington, Va, Us

Technical lead for Raytheon's design system, built in Stencil with a React documentation site. Led the decision to add a CSS framework to the web component system.Planned and tracked status of web component and CSS parity. Contributed to both products as well as created a testing project to allow automated QA testing of components and CSS in tandem.Led technical discovery for an application that connects to and coordinates with vendor-provided identity management services. Discovery included proof-of-concepts for configured user flows, communication across networks, and working with the vendor’s specialists to provide unsupported features.Continually refined the architecture of the monorepo to automate asset creation. Migrated packages out of our monorepo to separate the marketing/documentation project from the production of assets.

New York, New York, Us

Collaborated with project management and design to update the visual layer of the onboarding application. Migrated the project off of Compass to NodeSass, cutting build times in half.Created middle-ware as part of a migration to GraphQL for several services. Coordinated with consuming teams to establish requirements, delivery strategy and integration.

New York, Ny, Us

As a contract senior engineer, worked on modules for a new product based on Bootstrap, focusing on javascript classes, leading two front-end engineers, integrating into a C# back-end.

New York, Ny, Us

Acted as team lead for the Apps Team, which handled our primary player (player.radio.com) and our various embeddable players, using our restful API in Django to access various CBS Local APIs. The front-end was built in AngularJS with Compass/Sass for the CSS.Also built the initial UI for our podcasting service.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Created engagements for mobile (iPhone/Android) with Javascript, CSS and HTML5. programmed flash games and rich interaction for engagements (opt-in rich-media running on networks such as pandora and Zynga). Highlights include a biscuit- serving game for pillsbury, a shooter game for the WB’s Supernatural, a character-poll for Lawless, a customize-your-photo engagement with product placement for international delight, and an identify-a-character for Escape From Planet Earth.

Programmed touch screens, video players and iOS-iPad/Air, and Exploria tablet applications for major pharmaceutical companies.

Developed Facebook widgets for the 2010 MTV movie awards, FX’s "Sons of Anarchy" and "The League" season premieres with Facebook and Twitter sharing. the MTV widget featured voting, in-widget video, and live news feeds. "Sons of Anarchy" was a photo-modification/sharing widget. The League widget randomly generated logos, with over 700 possible combinations. other rich-media projects included for Cicso’s Flip and Valet, MTV’s Hard Times of RJ Berger, Faster (2010) and The Mechanic (2011), and FX’s Archer.

London, London, Gb

Freelance flash developer working on interfaces for tablets and on-line edetails.

Responsible for the design of logos, press and presentation materials, collateral and emails for a wide variety of clients.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for the creation of rich-media banners, including writing original code and Motifing. I've created ad-pods, video players, and programmed a quiz for the upcoming ReachBrand website, which should launch in early 2009.

Paris, Fr

Created emails, landing pages, simple banners, and small Flash pieces for the WomanWithin, Roamans, BrylaneHome and OneStopPlus brands.

New York, Ny, Us

Illustrated "A Unicorn Is Born," published in 2007 through Abrams Image. The book has 20 full-sized illustrations in water-color, gauche, and ink of various scenes in the story.

Created layout templates for series of children's narrative non-fiction, laid out many of the books for the Dinosaur Hunters series, illustrated several new dinosaurs for the same series, and also created illustrations for the SuperSize series.

London, Gb

Developed art direction and design for a series of leveled readers covering topics such as history and social studies.

Studio artist - layout, design research, Photoshop compositing, presentation, retouching.

Milano, Mi, It

Designed window displays for the Emporio Armani line of stores. This involved setting type and doing custom layouts on architectural elevations, as well as indicating merchandise layouts.

Bfa, Fine Arts

Mfa, Sculpture