Katie Bailey

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Senior Backend Engineer at Wren Finance · API platforms · Django, Python

Wren Finance
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
5+ years experience
Cornell University
English, Arabic
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Overview

I work on API platforms at Wren Finance in New York. Grew the public API team from 5 to 23 engineers. Most at home with Python and REST. I write a small newsletter about API platforms.

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Skills
rate limitingPythonRedisRESTDjango

Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Present
    Wren Finance · 4 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Led the migration of 58 services to Python.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 27 a week to 4.

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Education

  1. Cornell University
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2016 - 2020

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