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Hi! My name's Kat and I'm an engineer on the NuGet client team at Microsoft. Before that, I was the lead maintainer/architect of the NPM CLI for like 4 years, and the author of npx. I've also done a bunch of community and D&I work outside of that, along with more non-npm open source!

What I've Done

What I'm Working On

  • I admin WeAllJS and package.community and help keep them happy, healthy, inclusive communities.
  • I'm getting involved with the Rust ecosystem, and already started writing libraries like ssri, and cacache. I'm looking forward to doing more for the Rust community as I keep learning the language and getting involved with various efforts! Maybe with Cargo?
  • I participate in communities, providing mentorship and advice in relevant areas of expertise.

What Sponsorship Does

Aside from what the tiers get you, sponsoring me enables me to keep finding ways to contribute to communities, both in code/tools, and in community work, and it helps me justify spending time on this outside of the scope of my day job!

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Featured work

  1. NuGet/NuGet.Client

    Client Tools for NuGet - including Visual Studio extensions, command line tools, and msbuild support. (Open issues on https://github.com/nuget/home/issues)

  2. zkat/big-brain

    Utility AI library for Rust

    Rust 52
  3. npm/cli

    the package manager for JavaScript

    JavaScript 3,785
  4. zkat/ama

    Ask me anything!

  5. zkat/ssri-rs

    Rusty implementation of Subresource Integrity

    Rust 25
  6. zkat/cacache-rs

    💩💵 but for your 🦀

    Rust 96

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Taco Tier 🌮 | This gets me a taco at my favorite taco place! It also gets you:

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  • access to my (monthly?) newsletter with exclusive news, programming and community thoughts, and other yet-to-be-public open source goodness
  • My gratitude. Thank you!

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  • Access to an exclusive private repo with an archive of previous update emails, and various other exclusive goodies I'm gonna share with y'all!

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  • A Patron license to any of my copyleft-licensed projects.

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