Katie Adee / Senior Frontend Engineer Available — Fully Remote

Shipping product for ten years.

Frontend engineer & educator. React, TypeScript, Next.js, GSAP, and design-system craft. Built the UI that carried Opentrons through Y Combinator, then led the squad that shipped its Opentrons App, Protocol Designer, and Labware Library to labs worldwide.

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10

Years

Shipping product across frontend, mobile, and creative coding since 2014.

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8+

Direct Reports

Led a squad of eight engineers, a PM, and a designer at Opentrons.

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Courses Taught

Front End Web Development, Mobile Applications, and Dynamic Web at NYU Tandon.

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YC Founding Frontend

Joined Opentrons pre-Y Combinator as lead UX and founding frontend engineer.

01 / About

Ten years of product, ten years of teaching, one craft.

Joined Opentrons pre-Y Combinator as lead UX and founding frontend. Grew into a senior engineer leading a squad of eight on the lab-automation platform used by scientists at Stanford, MIT, and across pharma.

Since 2015 I've also taught front-end, mobile, and dynamic web at NYU Tandon — which keeps fundamentals sharp and habits honest.

Returning to industry full-time, fully remote, for work with product and craft in equal measure.

02 / Selected Work

Roles
& projects.

A decade of shipping — led by Opentrons, sustained by teaching.

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01Opentrons

2015—22

Senior Software Engineer & Squad Lead.

Opentrons · Protocol Designer & Labware Library

Led eight engineers, a PM, and a designer building the tools scientists use to author and share lab protocols. Stack: Webpack, Electron, CSS Modules, React, Redux over a Python API.

02Opentrons

2015—17

Lead UX & Founding Frontend.

Opentrons · Y Combinator · Brand, product, marketing

Joined pre-YC. Produced every piece of visual, brand, and UI work that carried the company through Y Combinator — and wrote the first product frontend from scratch.

03NYU Tandon

2015—Now

Adjunct Professor.

NYU Tandon · Front End, Mobile, Dynamic Web

Teach semester-long, four-hour biweekly courses covering UI/UX, HTML5/CSS3, flexible media, and JavaScript libraries including React and React Native.

04NYU ITP

2014—15

Resident Research Fellow.

NYU ITP · Citizen-science mobile with NYS DEC + Brookhaven

Ran training workshops and office hours; continued thesis research on a citizen-science app for the "A Day in the Life of the River" program.

05Office for Creative Research

2014

Freelance App Developer.

OCR & The Wild Bird Trust · Okavango River Delta

Built a wildlife-sighting and ethnographic data app used on an 18-day live-data expedition into the Okavango Delta.

06Apple Core Hotels

2010—12

UX Designer & Web Developer.

Apple Core Hotels · US, UK, Brazil markets

Designed, built, and maintained hotel sites across three markets — including localization, booking, and CMS work.

03 / Stack

The tools.

Languages & frameworks

  • TypeScript, JavaScript
  • React, React Native
  • Next.js, Redux
  • Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, Sass

Animation & interaction

  • GSAP, ScrollTrigger, SplitText
  • Canvas, SVG, WebRTC
  • Framer Motion

Design & systems

  • Component libraries
  • Design tokens
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
  • Figma, Adobe CS

Tooling & DX

  • Webpack, Vite, Electron
  • Jest, RTL, Cypress
  • Git, CI/CD

Leadership

  • Squad of 8 + PM + UX
  • Hiring & mentoring
  • Curriculum design
  • Code review culture

Adjacent

  • Python, Flask, MongoDB
  • Processing, Arduino
  • openFrameworks, Unity

Let's build something good.