I love making stuff.

My pronouns are they/them or she/her.

My name is Katie and I go by Kat, itsk8ekat, or KittyKatt.

If you’re here, you’re probably one of two people:

  • You only know me through the project screenFetch and this link was on my Github profile
  • You’re a recruiter and got this link from my resume

If you’re the former, welcome! I don’t really work on screenFetch anymore but it was a really fun 10 year journey and helped me learn a LOT. I can confidently say I wouldn’t be where I am today without the valuable skills I learned from that. I have a longer post about screenFetch’s future on the Discussions at the Github repopsitory.

If you’re the latter, also welcome! Let’s both pretend like this site is full of only the best sounding, million dollar buzzwords. Feels like a great plan to me. If I sent a resume to you, very likely I’d genuinely love to be what you’re looking for. Thank you for being here. Check out the Homelab page for some of the stuff I’ve been working on (and more buzzwords)!

I make shell stuff. Honestly, it’s pretty much all I make. I learned BASH writing screenFetch and up until the last probably 4-5 years have pretty much solved all my problems by over-engineering BASH scripts. Some call me a masochist for this, but whatever. It’s what I knew!

In the last 5 years, I feel like my skillset and knowledge have exploded. Three years ago, I wasn’t even thinking of running in-home Kubernetes clusters. Five years ago, I wasn’t thinking about representing my whole infrasture as code. Now, my homelab almost feels like a small business that has no profit but is really fun to show up to every day. The last five years of my life are the first times I’ve truly felt like I’m actually succeedding and thriving. I feel like I’ve really gotten somewhere and I found what I absolutely love to do.

For now, I’m based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, where I work as a DevOps Engineer. I’ve lived here for ~25 years and love it. Really got that small-town, big-city feel to it. Not too crowded, not too desolate. Plus, the food is amazing. If you’ve never had St. Louis toasted raviolis or St. Louis style pizza, you’re not really living. However, the next year is likely to result in a large change for me as I’m dead set on moving to Maine.

If you ever wanna chat, you can find me in several places:

  • Various social icons on my home page
  • Discord: KittyKatt
  • There used to be some IRC links here but RIP IRC :(