Kate Studwell

About Kate Studwell

I\'m currently working as a Staff Engineer in the Developer Experience organization at GitHub. I build tooling and systems that help improve the day-to-day experience of Engineers at GitHub. I\'m passionate about finding (and hopefully improving) the squishy areas where technology and culture overlap. In a former life, I was a Product/Project manager leading and managing web and application development, digital advertising, and mobile web and app development projects. As an engineer, I have experience working with Ruby, Rails, Go, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, the AWS ecosystem, and fun things in between.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Shopify

   Apr 2025 — Present

Education

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  BA, Linguistics, Germanic Languages

  2004 — 2008

• The Iron Yard

  Ruby on Rails Developer Certification, Ruby on Rails Development

  2016 — 2016

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Graduate Certificate (Projected), Computational Linguistics

Skills

• Mobile Applications
• Web Development
• Social Media Marketing
• Ruby
• Wordpress
• Web Analytics
• Product Management
• Google Analytics
• Social Media
• Ruby on Rails
• Online Advertising
• Social Networking
• Project Management
• Advertising
• Blogging
• Marketing
• Mobile Devices
• Mobile Advertising