About

Kate Taggart (they/them) has been in the tech industry for over 11 years, having worked in areas ranging from power grid resiliency to fintech to enterprise infrastructure software. As an engineer, Kate was one of the early team members on the WolframAlpha project, and later conducted novel research at the University of Illinois on how deliberate physical perturbations in the grid may be able to detect certain types of cyber attacks. Kate has managed a variety of backend service and devops teams at New Relic, Simple, and HashiCorp, and is currently at Stripe as an engineering manager on their Issuing product.

Kate lives in and loves San Francisco, but a piece of their heart remains in Portland, OR. You’ll often see them biking or hiking around the Bay with some sort of Portland t-shirt on to compensate for this fact. Kate is active in causes related to housing, public transit, and LGTBQ+ issues, and believes the only way we’ll make San Francisco a city that lives up to its progressive potential is by getting more San Franciscans actively civically involved.

Kate is currently working on an engineering management book and hopes to have more news about that soon.