👋Hi, I'mKatia Wheeler!

Building and maintaining the design system that powers Vanta's compliance automation platform, along with the agentic experiences layered on top of it. Partnering with designers and product engineers to ship accessible, well-crafted components and AI-driven flows that help teams move faster and stay consistent across the product.

Serve as the Tech Lead of the Design Systems team, setting technical direction, shaping the roadmap, and mentoring engineers as we scale the system across Vanta's product surface.

Led multiple projects involving key features for a merchant's presence on the Shop app that included technical architecture, design, and development utilizing React Native. Created both the frontend and backend of a new admin tool for merchants to customize their storefronts' appearance in the Shop app utilizing React and Ruby on Rails. Built and maintained critical components for Shop Pay Installments across multiple repos and technologies. Utilized AI tools to improve day to day workflows as well as reduce developer toil when it comes to flaky tests in the CI.

Served as the Development Manager with 8 direct reports ranging from junior to Staff engineers; duties included setting the team's goals, priorities, and technical direction. Actively mentored mid and junior level developers as well as multiple interns who then transitioned to full-time employees.

Team Lead for the web portion of an Employee Experience platform. Implemented a micro-frontend architecture utilizing React. Responsible for the creation and maintenance of an internal shared React component library and other utility libraries. Coordinated and assisted contractors helping with our efforts to make our platform completely accessible following WCAG standards.

Served as a member of the Kaleidoscope Council, an internal organization whose goal is to positively impact the culture of Limeade through DEI initiatives. Actively mentored mid and junior level developers.

Developed and maintained modular user interfaces and component libraries for a Software as a Service product utilizing React, Redux, and GraphQL (Apollo Server and Client). All code was expected to be highly performant, well-tested, and well-crafted. Updated and enhanced APIs within a micro-services architecture utilizing .NET Core and AWS.

Utilized Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming paradigms to create both the front-end and back-end of an email management system built in React with TypeScript, Redux, and .NET Core. Maintained native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) mobile applications for an event management application.

Created a client-facing patient portal as well as internal applications. Crafted both the back-end MVC architecture using .NET Core as well as the front-end Angular 2 implementation utilizing Material Design principles.

Created custom WordPress templates and plugins for client websites from high resolution mockups. Met with clients to determine all requirements, both design and functional, and implemented an end-to-end solution to fit their needs.