About

Catherine Lavin is a full-stack software engineer with over 4 years of experience, specializing in front-end development. She is currently working as a Front End Software Engineer at MonetaGo. Catherine is a former chemist, bringing strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills to her work as an engineer. Catherine's technical skills include JavaScript, React, Typescript, Redux, Python, Flask, Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Agile, and Git. She enjoys working in a collaborative environment that provides opportunities for growth as an engineer. In her current role at MonetaGo, Catherine has converted user profile forms to React and Redux Form, added new forms to collect job preference data, and updated styling from SASS to styled components. She has also written Enzyme unit tests for various features to increase application test coverage and worked closely with design to build resilient, responsive emails using Jinja templates. Catherine has collaborated with front-end engineers on the creation of a design system, composing stories for commonly used components with Storybook. She has also served as a scrum master on a 3-4 person engineering team. Previously, Catherine worked as a Front-end/UI Developer at Lucera Financial Infrastructures, where she built features for a greenfield, websocket-based web application to trade US treasuries at high speed using React Hooks, TypeScript, and Redux. She also owned a significant portion of the application, allowing for placing and controlling trades, and viewing data at update speeds up to 250ms. Catherine collaborated with front-end and back-end engineers on feature implementation to fulfill product requirements and meet deadlines. Catherine has a degree in Full Stack Web Development from Flatiron School, a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Syracuse University, an MPhil in Chemistry from Syracuse University, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Arizona. Catherine's technical skills, combined with her critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, make her a valuable asset to any team. She is passionate about front-end development and enjoys working collaboratively to build resilient and responsive applications.