Mikayla started working in software as a freelance programmer, building WordPress websites for small businesses from 2015 to 2017. In 2018 she decided to return to school, going to Portland State University to study P2P software, CRDTs, and distributed web technologies with Rust. As an intern at Zed for the summer of 2022, she built Zed's integrated Terminal emulator, and was subsequently hired.
