Kat Marchán

I'm the former tech lead/architect for the NPM CLI, now working for Microsoft on developer tooling. I do a lot of Rust open source stuff and some web dev.

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Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

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ama

Ask me anything!

Fork 11 stars

big-brain

Utility AI library for the Bevy game engine

Rust • 1001 stars

miette

Fancy extension for std::error::Error with pretty, detailed diagnostic printing.

Rust • 1925 stars

npx

execute npm package binaries (moved)

JavaScript • 2627 stars

cacache-rs

A high-performance, concurrent, content-addressable disk cache, with support for both sync and async APIs. 💩💵 but for your 🦀

Rust • 458 stars

Skills/Languages

Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Elixir/Phoenix, FOSS!

Currently learning

Reevaluating my entire understanding of web dev

Currently hacking on

A game

Previously, I wrote tools like `npx` and `npm ci`, and libraries like `cacache` and `ssri`, which I've now ported over to Rust from JS.

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