About

Hey, world 👋🏾.

My name is Kayla, and I’m a data engineer in government contracting. I worked in politics early in my career, but caught the tech bug in 2015 and never looked back.

These days I spend most of my time building and maintaining reliable data pipelines and secure APIs — mostly at the intersection of messy real-world data and systems that actually have to work and drive meaningful insights.

I care a lot about preserving the humanity of tech. For example, how do we stay in touch with real life outside of infinite scrolling, social media outrage, and the creeping fear that agentic productivity will just make us all more efficiently miserable.

Fast Facts

🙏🏾 Deeply spiritual and on a journey practicing The Way.

🐶 I have a rescue pittie, who I absolutely adore and she will definitely adore you back. No pittie haters allowed.

🤓 Studied political science at Howard University (The REAL HU, IYKYK 😜). I’m still a political nerd and enjoy building things on the side that pique my interest 🛠️.

💻 Attended a full time coding bootcamp. I picked up SQL on the job as a data analyst, but I learned all things web development (from scratch!) at the bootcamp.

🏋🏾‍♀️ I LOVE weightlifting (and CrossFit!). I live a double life as a competitive athlete and an engineer. Personal bests include a 220lb clean & jerk, 179lb snatch, 245lb back squat and 310lb deadlift.