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Kate Pond

@katepond

Message

I build AI-powered tools and distributed systems for mission-driven organizations.

United States

Message

What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build AI-powered, mission-driven products that make AI accessible for organizations tackling humanity's most pressing challenges, especially across climate tech, sustainability, and community impact.

At Artium.ai, I shipped LLM observability for multi-turn conversation history and agent tool-call evaluation, and designed a persona-based synthetic-data pipeline for healthcare AI evaluations. I also led a company-wide Agentic Coding Initiative and built production features across TypeScript, NextJS, and Python.

Previously, I led engineering work at Openly, automating insurance billing and policy documentation with Temporal workflows, Go, GCP, and PostgreSQL. I founded The Pond’s Edge to build AI and climate-tech products that support sustainability, circular economy efforts, and community impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Artium.ai

Oct 2025 - Present (11 months)

Shipped LLM observability integration and designed a persona-based synthetic data pipeline for AI evaluations. Spearheaded a company-wide Agentic Coding Initiative and built production features across TypeScript/NextJS and Python stacks.

LLM Observability AI Evaluation Synthetic Data TypeScript Python Agentic coding Mob Programming Pairing

Current

Founder & Chief Ecosystem Officer

Current

The Pond's Edge

Apr 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Founded The Pond's Edge to explore the intersection of ecology and technology through AI and climate tech initiatives. Prototyping apps using AI-assisted development tools and conducting customer discovery for mission-driven products.

AI assisted Development Prototyping Customer Discovery Product Requirements MVP Design

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead

Openly

Sep 2021 - Feb 2025 (3 years 5 months)

Developed Temporal Workflows within microservices to automate billing and policy documentation processes. Collaborated across teams to expand insurance product offerings into new state markets and maintained a large monolithic codebase under regulatory requirements.

Temporal Microservices Docker gRPC PostgreSQL GCP Honeycomb Onboarding

Software Engineer

Allen Institute for Immunology

Nov 2019 - Sep 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Designed, developed, and tested distributed microservices on Google Cloud Platform using Golang, MySQL, and MongoDB. Collaborated cross-functionally with scientists and external partners to deliver research-enabling software.

MySQL MongoDB GCP Microservices Distributed Systems