I often look at the world and imagine how I’d structure the code and write the CSS.
Habitat
Found on sandy golden beaches, high flying on a trapeze, behind the screen coding with a bird on her lap, kick boxing in Thailand, and travelling the unknown! Terrible at getting up early, great at staying up late.
Habits
Just like in other parts of her personality, Kat’s work as a web developer is a mix of back-end and front-end—figuring out how things should work and how they should look. A technical mind with a creative streak, she happily bounces between code, style sheets, and anything that makes a site come alive.
Kat loves collaborating with high-end designers (digital, print, or otherwise) on websites that are a little different—quirky, challenging, or beautifully simple (especially if there’s good music playing). She’s a technical, creative, physical little anomaly, all in one.
Her love of problem-solving runs deep in the family. With maths-teacher parents, one grandfather who built intricate furniture, and the other who caught fish for the family dinner, Kat grew up surrounded by numbers, creativity, and making things with her hands.
Some of her favourite childhood memories are of nights out on the Ballina river—listening for the PUFT of dolphins surfacing, napping on boat ropes, and waking to the clang of the anchor before her grandma fried up the day’s catch.
That spirit of craft and curiosity is what drives her work today: enjoying the process, learning new tricks, fixing what’s broken, and generally just making S#%T happen. She works from wherever she is—with people and companies in over 10 time zones—and loves projects with purpose.
Alongside small businesses and creative ventures, Kat also builds charity and community websites that support people in developing countries. Think projects like Circus Kathmandu or Activate Action—digital spaces that amplify voices, raise awareness, and create real-world change.
Honours
In the big list of female programmers in Australia – 2014
STEM Education role model SMH – 2015
WooCommerce developer since – 2012
HTML/CSS/JS developer since IE5 – 2005
WordPress developer since version 2.0 – 2007
Bachelor of Digital Media (distinction) College of Fine Arts – 2007
