Caitlin Wolters

Leadership

At OmniSci I was nominated to be a Team Lead. I led several projects to build new features - handling both project management tasks as well as contributing to the code. I led the team’s retrospectives, and facilitated feedback between our team and all levels of management (including our CEO). I also led our bi-weekly Engineering Demo meetings, where I coordinated presenting new product features to the company. Lastly, I worked to coordinate a company-wide on-call system to improve triaging of critical bugs and cross-team communication.

Communication

I do my best to provide prompt, empathetic, and humble communication with everyone at my company. It's also my passion to write easily-readble, well-documented code. Additionally, the VP of Marketing at OmniSci called my presentation skills “fantastic”.

Culture building

At Omnisci, I had a strong impact on building a positive culture: I founded and ran our Mario Kart night - we met twice weekly for over 5 months and attracted people from all over the company. I also led an initiative to have a coordinated team Halloween costume, which won our company’s costume prize. Additionally, I frequently facilitated social meetings with my coworkers - including one that continues to meet long after I've left the company.

Ridgeline

Heavy.ai (formerly OmniSci)

As a team lead, I coordinated: daily standups, cross-team issue triaging, company-wide feature demos, team retrospectives, and the team's on-call system.

I was a project lead for major functionality that debuted in our largest release to-date. This functionality was also demoed by the CEO at the company’s first ever user conference

New skills learned:

• Advanced data visualization. Charts like: bar charts, line charts, heatmaps - and the SQL that drives those charts
• Data analytics concepts like cohorts, TopN, pre/post-filters
• How to design UI to support data analytics - selecting, filtering, and presenting data
• How to provide data analytics tools for enterprise customers with big data
• Advanced frontend architectural concepts, especially as it pertains to organizing data

Yale University

I built a user interface for scientists to upload and create geospatial data related to plant and animal biodiversity.

I led an initiative to rebuild a suite of outdated applications. Notably, I built an Angular-based UI component library. Additionally, I built an Angular-based boilerplate for use in each application overhaul or in new application launches.

I also led an initiative to internationalize our Angular app. This included writing Node scripts to facilitate the translation process and establishing procedures for maintaining internationalization alongside new app development.

Extracurriculars:

• Course Audit: Data Structures and Programming Techniques, Yale Department of Computer Science

Wolters GeoDevelopment, LLC

Immediately after graduating, I founded and ran a small business doing GIS-related web development. I worked primarily with nonprofit organizations to develop web map applications and data visualization tools.

Responsibilities:

• Small business management tasks: initiation of client relationships; determining project scopes; contract creation; communication.
• Front-end and back-end web development: ground-up creation of web mapping and data-visualization utilities
• Spatial data processing
• Updating and maintaining public datasets stored in PGSQL databases

Notable Clients:

• The Association of State Floodplain Managers
• SharedGeo

Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office

Responsibilities:

• Web map application project lead, creation of web mapping applications and internal government mapping utilities
• Updating, designing, and maintaining spatial databases
• Spatial data processing
• Maintenance of public data sources
• Spatial data quality review

University of Wisconsin-Madison

I focused on interactive cartography and web-development related classes. I worked as an intern during the last year and a half of university doing GIS-related web development. I took two directed study courses that involved developing web applications that focused on geospatial data.

Accomplishments:

• Private Pilot License, 2010
• NOLS Himalaya Mountaineering Course, India, 2011
• Ultramarathon 8th place female finisher, Chippewa 50k, 2013

Praise

"One thing that I appreciate (and our team appreciates) is that Caitlin takes time 'to leave a place better than she found it.' As she is working, she regularly takes time to refactor existing code for the better or if the changes are too far off her current track, then she will file a JIRA with breadcrumbs."

"Caitlin’s strong technical background enabled her to come up to speed quickly, and she continues to produce high quality PRs that impress her peers."