Today’s Woman in Tech: Kate Sills, Lead Software Engineer at Agoric
Kate Sills is a Lead Software Engineer at Agoric, a JavaScript-native smart contract platform and PoS blockchain. Kate leads the development of Agoric’s smart contract framework, which is called Zoe. With an interest in economics and law, she has been a columnist for the Cato Institute and was previously a board member of the Tezos Commons Foundation. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science.
When did you become interested in technology?
My dad is a farmer, but he also wrote computer programs for the family farm, mostly land-leveling programs in MS-DOS, that would figure out where to take dirt and move it most efficiently to level a field for the right slope. When I was about eight, I saw him working and asked if I could do it too. I wrote a few programs: one that played Mary Had A Little Lamb using computer tones and another that was a choose-your-own-adventure text-based game. But after that, I pretty much stopped programming, because I couldn’t see a direct application in my life. I did a little bit of blogging with a modified WordPress install, but I didn’t do any intensive programming outside of my own website until college.
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Kate Sills is a Lead Software Engineer at Agoric, a JavaScript-native smart contract platform and PoS blockchain. Kate leads the development of Agoric’s smart contract framework, which is called Zoe. With an interest in economics and law, she has been a columnist for the Cato Institute and was previously a board member of the Tezos Commons Foundation. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science.
When did you become interested in technology?
My dad is a farmer, but he also wrote computer programs for the family farm, mostly land-leveling programs in MS-DOS, that would figure out where to take dirt and move it most efficiently to level a field for the right slope. When I was about eight, I saw him working and asked if I could do it too. I wrote a few programs: one that played Mary Had A Little Lamb using computer tones and another that was a choose-your-own-adventure text-based game. But after that, I pretty much stopped programming, because I couldn’t see a direct application in my life. I did a little bit of blogging with a modified WordPress install, but I didn’t do any intensive programming outside of my own website until college.
Continue reading: https://jaxenter.com/women-in-tech-sills-175532.html
