Kara Luton 🩰👩🏼‍💻

Hi, I’m Kara 👋🏼 👩🏼‍💻 UI/UX engineer 🩰 Retired ballerina 🎵 Former music publicist 🎓 Bootcamp grad 🎙️ Conference speaker 🐶 Dog mom to Maggie and Franklin 🏒 Nashville Predators fan 🪴 Owns too many plants

What I look at during zoom calls 🥐

I’ll always have a special place in my heart for CodeStock since it was my very first speaking gig! It’s an amazing conference for attendees and speakers alike.

✨Guess what?! I’ve transitioned into an engineering manager position on my team! I’m so excited to take on the new challenges that come with this and to lead and support my team as we continue building great things together 🚀💪🏻

Idk how I’ve been at my current workplace for six years without starting a swifties slack channel but I’ve finally done it.

@nullvoxpopuli I used to be really against it because I wrote in AP style when I was in college and working in public relations. Now, I always use it.

TIL people *strongly* are against the Oxford Comma. Not sure if they're a majority, but they're wrong. There is no situation where adding an Oxford comma doesn't make things better. It just makes sense to always use.

@kefimochi @jointechladies

I went to a coding bootcamp 8 years ago and I recently found out I got promoted to senior engineer 🙌🏻 Senior engineer seemed so far away when I first started in tech. It’s crazy that I’m here now and to see all the progress I’ve made in the past 8 years.

@NashSevereWx ascend Ampitheater is being evacuated. Saying severe storms headed our way.

Heading to my first tech meetup in FOUR YEARS tonight. Can’t wait to see ya, @nash_js!

@Mc__LOL I blame it on learning AP style and having that forced on me in my publicist career 🙃

It’s taken seven years of not working in public relations but I’m finally a fan of the Oxford comma. …it makes sense? Who woulda thought?!

All I want for my birthday today is a @PredsNHL win 🤞🏼

@PREDSident @PredsPR @PredsNHL @BrdgstoneArena @FordIceCenter @FMBankArena @PredsFoundation My husband and I became bandwagon fans during the 2017 run but we haven’t missed a single game since! Here’s us at the recent watch party at the factory.

Hard to beat a Saturday night in SMASHVILLE, but an early Playoff game in SMASHVILLE on a Friday night?!?! WOOOOOOOOO!!! I have two miracles for a random sharer of a special playoff moment! Have DMs open for random notification of your Dub!

Your daily reminder to stop addressing mail to “Mr. And Mrs. <Husband’s first name> <Last name>”. I still have my own name even though I’m married 🙃

@PredsNHL @BrdgstoneArena Would loveeee to win this #PredsPride

Playoff hockey is almost here, and we want to see how you're showing your #PredsPride! Reply with your boldest and goldest photo for a chance to win 2 tickets to a playoff game at @BrdgstoneArena! Rules -> bit.ly/49DOe5a

Me currently listening to @Beyonce’s COWBOY CARTER while coding

What are y’all’s favorite resources to learn @reactjs? I’ve been working in Ember and Vue for the past seven years and want to expand my knowledge a bit more!

I have one of the best coworkers around

I’m number four. Code and terminal on the vertical monitor and then localhost on the main.

@nullvoxpopuli My bootcamp did both front and back end!

Frontend devs have boot camps as a way to start their career. How to backend folks get started?