Kara Bernert

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Technical and people leader with 12 years of experience building quality products with scaling teams

New York, NY

Built, shipped, and supported core product functionality across the stack from identifying initial need through to deployment & maintenance
Lead and implemented a variety of refactors and system-level codebase changes to improve developer experience and control bug rates while avoiding costly major re-writes
Provided technical direction, guidance, and judgment across the org and stack, including writing and reviewing technical plans and code for quality and design
Managed and grew a full-stack product development team of 6 engineers across 3 workstreams, significantly improving planning efficiency, time to delivery, and sprint completion rates
Defined and maintained a strategic technical and product roadmap and delivery timeline with product and executive partners
Continually invested in team and org culture and processes, creating a high-trust, high-autonomy environment where contributors consistently delivered high-quality work, through challenging organizational changes and team scaling
Mentored and developed engineers at all levels, resulting in multiple promotions and low team attrition
Designed and ran technical and behavioral interviews for engineers at all levels with a notably high rate of in-seat success for resulting hires

New York, NY

Developed features for and maintained large-scale web apps in various languages & frameworks using Agile processes, BDD, TDD, and pair and individual programming.
Lead cross-disciplinary teams that took projects from ideation through (timely) delivery.
Managed and assisted with tech hiring.
Contributed to company cultural and strategic direction, including OKRs, culture and policy discovery, and even SaaS product tier repackaging (leading to a 2–3x higher-tier conversion rate).
Increased UI development speed and quality by addressing technical debt, improving workflows, and increasing communication between designers & devs.

Boston, MA