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🐺 Dog-lover. 🌲 Tree-hugger. 💭 Thought-thinker. 🎭 Feelings-feeler. 👩🏼💻 Code-writer. 🧠 ADHD/Anxious-Brain. 👀 Currently in search of my next role.
Hello!
I'm Kate, a creative tinkerer, chronic optimizer, and an extremely-human human. I live in Missoula, Montana with my husband and our two fur babies Moose and Henry. After a much needed extended (and almost entirely "unplugged") burnout break, I'm ready to jump back into work, refreshed and ready to support a new team.
Prior to taking this break, I'd been working as a Frontend JavaScript/TypeScript web developer for the last five-ish years -- most recently with React, and with Angular (v2.0+) prior to that. While on this break, however, I took some time to ponder what it was I wanted to come back to for work. After much consideration of what I know to be my strengths and weaknesses, but also the mark I want a chance to make on a tiny piece of the world, I've settled on a new path: I’ve decided to work toward becoming the Engineering Manager I've always wanted for myself and the teams I've been a part of the last few years; ideally with a company dedicated to fostering successful, fully-distributed, diverse, and asynchronous teams.
Outside of work my brain is likely tangled up in one of the following topics:
Now that we're in Missoula — Should we join a club? Should we loiter around the splash pad at the dog park? Or should we stay home and stare at the new neighbors from our respective offices. Introvert problems.
Additionally, now that we’re nearby, figure out how to design/build a modest home in the woods (we already own some trees a ways out of town) without completely blowing our budget.
Now that my brain is relentlessly determined to spot interesting rocks in the dirt/gravels paths around here, decide if this new specimen is worth toting home, scrubbing with various firm brushes, and adding to my collection of relatively common but sentimentally precious specimens. Rock tumbler purchase is on the horizon, I can feel it.
Choose a jigsaw puzzle from my queue to start — or better yet, should I go get the currently-in-progress puzzle from my office and work on that while we watch TV (…or maybe I’ll just continue to doom scroll)?
Make up my mind about the next book I’ll read on my own, as well as which one I’ll try to convince my husband to listen to (in audiobook form, of course) at night before bed — will they be titles from my growing "to read" shelf, or should I further indulge my reading habits and purchase something new instead (spoiler: the latter wins more often than I'd like to admit).
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Want to reach out? The best way to reach me is via email at hello@katesowles.com.
Cheers!