Katherine has been a resident of Utah for more than 13 years now. She was born and raised in the Philippines and have lived in Nueva Ecija, Vigan, Cebu, and Las Pinas.

She graduated with B.S. in Computer Science from PLM (Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila). She has been a student leader growing up, holding various class officer positions in elementary and highschool to leading the Junior Philippine Computer Society (JPCS) as a Finance/IT Director on national level and as the President of the JPCS-PLM chapter during college.

Katherine is currently a Software Quality Assurance & Testing professional and leader and an Agile and Quality Advocate who is very passionate about building quality in software products and processes as well as customer success. She has advocated and have been involved in many programs and employee groups that help encourage more women and minorities to get into the Tech industry, help start or improve on diversity/inclusion/belonging in the workplace, help promote awareness, education, and support for different cultures and communities especially the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and LGBTQ+ as well as causes for women and children, mental health, etc.

Katherine is married and has two children. She enjoys food, reading, and spending time with family as they travel, go jeeping, and explore the outdoors. They have their small family business The Jeep Guy LLC where they fix and build up jeeps for offroading and also rescue and restore old Jeeps to add to their Jeep Museum.