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Hi! I'm Katherine Isabella (or Katie), and I go by seaglade online. If you're looking for my blog, check the sidebar! The rest of this page is effectively my resume, and if you want a PDF copy of my official printable resume hit CTRL+P.

I'm a student at RIT studying Computing and Information Technologies, specifically focusing on databases and data engineering. I love building data pipelines and setting up analytics systems, and I have several different data projects running within my homelab at the moment. If you've got a tricky data source and need to extract data from it somehow, let me know, I'd love to help out!

Technologies I use for my work include an Apache Airflow server for ETL, a PostgreSQLserver with pgvector, ParadeDB's pg_search and Timescale's timescaledb and pgvectorscale, and several Marimo notebooks for visualization and analytics. I also use n8n on occasion to expose datasets and visualizations at API endpoints.

Skills

Database Administration
Data Analysis
Python
Docker
Data Collection
ETL
PostgreSQL
Apache Airflow
Marimo
DuckDB
Web Scraping
Data Pipelines
Shell Scripting
Git
Proxmox
TypeScript
Network Security
Network Administration
Astro
API Development
Regular Expressions
MySQL
Linux System Administration
LaTeX
Research
Problem Solving
Digital Communication
Leadership
Teamwork

Education And Experience

Bachelor of Science in Computing and Information Technologies

Aug 2024 - May 2028 (expected)
Rochester Institute of Technology

Relevant coursework includes:

Database Schema Design
Data Analysis
Web Development
Network Engineering
Server Management
Data Visualization

Projects

Sobriety

Mar 2022 - Dec 2023

A simple and minimal app to track how long you've been sober from anything you want.

Built an Android application in Kotlin
Published the application on the F-Droid app repository

MDBF

Jul 2024 - Present, public as of 2025-09-09

A modular discord bot framework built on top of Pycord.

Developed a python library for building Discord bots
Implemented custom configuration handling and hot-reloading of modules
Set up deployment pipeline for automated PyPI releases

CollatzRand

Aug 2021 - Apr 2022

A Collatz Conjecture based PRNG, which takes advantage of the geometric Brownian motion of the Collatz sequence for a given seed to generate pseudorandom bits

Developed a Java library for random number generation
Implemented the same method names as java.Random to make usage more familiar
Developed tests to ensure consistency and correctness of functions

Eswatini News Aggregation Project

Jan 2025 - Present, private

A database of news articles from Eswatini for the purpose of analyzing relationships between people and other entities

Deployed ParadeDB instance using Docker Compose
Implemented database schemas and indices for storing and searching news articles
Implemented vector embedding generation to facilitate semantic search
Developed and deployed Apache Airflow DAGs to scrape and index news articles from designated websites
Built custom dashboards using Marimo and Vega Altair to provide high-level overviews of indexed news articles
Built and deployed internal interface for hybrid search (reciprocal rank fusion of BM25 and cosine similarity) with natural language queries