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Katie Horne

Over an 18-month period, contributed to the semgrep/semgrep-docs repository by delivering 53 documentation-driven features that improved onboarding, governance, and technical clarity for the Semgrep AppSec Platform. Focused on integrating AI-powered analysis, enhancing CI/CD workflows, and streamlining API and SSO configuration guidance, the work emphasized maintainability and user experience. Leveraged Python, JavaScript, and Markdown to implement cross-platform documentation, automate release management, and support static analysis use cases. Addressed complex integration scenarios across Azure DevOps, GitLab, and Bitbucket, while maintaining rigorous documentation standards. The approach prioritized clear, actionable guidance, reducing support overhead and accelerating adoption for both developers and security teams.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

96%Features

Repository Contributions

202Total
Bugs
2
Commits
202
Features
53
Lines of code
98,502
Activity Months18

Work History

March 2026

10 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 (2026-03) — For semgrep-docs, delivered a targeted documentation overhaul and AI capabilities enhancements that improve developer onboarding, reduce support workload, and enable scalable adoption of AI-powered tooling. Key outcomes include a comprehensive Documentation Improvements and Education Resources package (XSS/Command Injection cheat sheets, workflows, CI/CD guidance, SSO onboarding, and release notes), a transition to Semgrep Multimodal AI Capabilities for enhanced code analysis and remediation guidance, and an updated AI Credits Allocation Policy for Team and Enterprise plans. Notable bug fixes included addressing documentation build errors and cleaning up CI config docs and samples to ensure reliable publishing. Across these efforts, the team demonstrated strong documentation engineering, CI/CD literacy, onboarding design, AI-enabled tooling, and policy governance, delivering tangible business value through improved developer experience and governance.

February 2026

8 Commits • 1 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026: Focused on elevating user onboarding and platform usability for the Semgrep AppSec Platform via a comprehensive documentation refresh in the semgrep/semgrep-docs repository. Consolidated guidance across usage of local (ephemeral) and YAML-defined rules, January 2026 release notes, validators, getting started guide, pricing and billing, token management, AI credit allocation, and dashboard interactions. The documentation improvements reduce friction, shorten time-to-value, and enable self-service across onboarding, configuration, and cost tracking. Targeted maintenance included language improvements and updates to billing-related content to align with evolving product capabilities.

January 2026

5 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly summary for semgrep-docs focusing on documentation quality, licensing clarity, and tooling consistency. Delivered consolidated documentation improvements, clarified license information sourcing (deps.dev), standardized writing guidelines and formatting, updated the language table, enhanced dependency search documentation with version filtering, and centralized Vale configuration within the repository to streamline tooling and audits.

December 2025

9 Commits • 3 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 Monthly Summary for semgrep/semgrep-docs: Focused, business-value driven documentation work across AppSec Platform, MCP server, and SSC knowledge base. Delivered consolidated and reorganized content across API references, findings, SSO, advisories, and permissions; refreshed API URLs; removed obsolete dashboard references; introduced detailed finding content pages and improved doc navigation and formatting.

November 2025

6 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

In November 2025, delivered targeted documentation improvements for Semgrep docs, focusing on Managed Scans, Assistant Memories, Windows support messaging, scan timings, FP/TP explanations, and FAQs. Updated six commits to clarify behavior, added a KB article on SMS not running for PRs, captured best practices for Assistant Memories, removed outdated WSL references, clarified when SMS runs, introduced Assistant's rule explanation and analysis box, and refreshed the FAQs. These efforts reduced ambiguities, improved onboarding, and positioned customer support to resolve queries faster. Demonstrated collaborative writing and docs tooling, with cross-contributor collaboration.

October 2025

13 Commits • 2 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Month 2025-10 for semgrep/semgrep-docs: Focused on comprehensive docs improvements, UI reliability enhancements, and release notes alignment to optimize onboarding, rule-writing workflows, and CE usage. The work strengthens documentation coverage, accelerates rule authoring, and improves deployment stability for the docs platform.

September 2025

16 Commits • 4 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 monthly summary focused on delivering business value and technical reliability across two repos. Key efforts centered on Jira integration enhancements and launch readiness for Managed Scans in semgrep-docs, plus broad knowledge base and tooling improvements. A clarifying README change in semgrep reduced onboarding friction for new users.

August 2025

18 Commits • 7 Features

Aug 1, 2025

Month: 2025-08 | Semgrep Docs (semgrep/semgrep-docs) monthly summary focused on delivering business-value through documentation improvements, onboarding clarity, and enterprise-readiness. Highlights include end-to-end enhancements to AppSec Projects and Managed Scans docs across Azure, Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab; strengthened supply chain guidance; documented CI/CD and PR workflows to streamline secure automation; new memory customization documentation; added GitHub Enterprise Cloud Data Residency guidance; and a Node.js upgrade in CI/CD. Also performed site maintenance to reduce noise and improve navigation, and resolved key docs tooling issues to stabilize user guidance.

July 2025

16 Commits • 1 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025: Focused on strengthening the Semgrep AppSec Platform documentation and knowledge base to drive faster onboarding, reduce support friction, and enable automation. Delivered consolidated, cross-topic documentation updates across the AppSec Platform, expanded coverage for Windows, PHP GA, JavaScript/Node.js, and supply chain/scm topics, and introduced API-driven private rules deployment guidance, pattern-not enhancements, and diff-aware scan workflows. Fixed critical documentation issues, including broken anchors and cross-page findings count discrepancies, and published release guidance to improve operator efficiency and visibility into product capabilities.

June 2025

20 Commits • 10 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary for semgrep/semgrep-docs focusing on documentation-driven technical features, governance updates, and usability improvements for Semgrep Assistant and related tooling. Highlights include extensive Memories v2 documentation, policy/licensing clarifications, plan-availability and governance documentation, Jira integration, CLI and Finding Details enhancements, setup/SCM guidance, and visual/navigation refresh.

May 2025

9 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly highlights focused on strengthening the Semgrep AppSec Platform documentation in semgrep-docs, delivering a comprehensive documentation overhaul and AI-driven secrets feature. This work included Jira integration enhancements, SCM and pipeline documentation, Azure DevOps diff-aware scan setup guidance, glossary additions, AI-driven secrets documentation, and a knowledge base addressing findings deduplication between API and UI, along with updated release notes. The initiatives improve onboarding, cross-team collaboration, and the accuracy and traceability of security findings, delivering clear business value for developers and security personnel.

April 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary focused on developer documentation and onboarding improvements across key repositories, with an emphasis on business value and technical clarity. No code feature flags delivered this month beyond documentation, but the documentation quality and deployment guidance were significantly improved to accelerate onboarding and reduce support overhead.

March 2025

13 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2025

Month: 2025-03 — Semgrep Docs team delivered targeted documentation and guidance improvements for Wiz integration and AppSec Platform, enhancing discoverability, consistency, and cross-ecosystem integration. No explicit code-level bug fixes were recorded in this period; the focus was on documentation quality, clarity, and maintainability to accelerate onboarding and reduce support overhead.

February 2025

14 Commits • 5 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for semgrep-docs: Delivered cross-platform integration and policy documentation updates enabling broadened adoption of Semgrep across Azure DevOps, Wiz, and GitLab, reinforced by beta-status clarity and general assistant improvements. This work reduces setup effort, accelerates triage, and reduces ambiguity for users and admins.

January 2025

14 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 monthly summary for semgrep-docs: Delivered consolidated AppSec Platform documentation and UX improvements across Azure DevOps and Network Broker integrations, with updates to SSO/SAML configurations, Findings page usage, and general platform features to improve onboarding, troubleshooting, and security scanning experiences. Also modernized documentation structure and dependencies to reduce maintenance burden and misconfigurations.

December 2024

11 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly summary focusing on features, bugs fixed, and impact for semgrep-docs. Delivered substantive SSC (Semgrep Supply Chain) documentation enhancements and initiated beta Docs for Dependency Graphs and Lockfileless Scanning. Strengthened messaging around GA status, usage examples, quickstart paths, and release notes, while improving structure and accessibility across the SSC docs. Prepared documentation support for Java-based lockfileless scanning and diff-aware scanning features, reinforcing product value and adoption readiness.

November 2024

14 Commits • 6 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024 focused on strengthening documentation to accelerate customer onboarding, improve governance, and support scalable feature adoption across Semgrep docs. Delivered a set of targeted documentation enhancements across Network Broker, Supply Chain, Managed Scans, Security Findings, and Privacy/AI data processing, with additional coverage of PR blocking in CI. Outcomes include clearer configuration guidance for Network Broker (multi-SCM allowlists, tabbed SCM providers with allowCodeAccess for Managed Scans, inbound IP details), license compliance visibility in merge requests, guidance to exclude SSC rules, enhanced dependency viewing via additional lockfiles, GitLab integration prerequisites for Managed Scans, and AI/data processing privacy updates. Business value: reduced onboarding time for complex features, improved security/compliance documentation, and clearer governance controls for customers and internal teams.

October 2024

1 Commits

Oct 1, 2024

October 2024: Documentation quality improvements for semgrep-docs, focusing on footnote formatting consistency and cross-link updates. Delivered unified footnote markers, updated Kotlin and Rust Markdown entries, revised end-of-table footnotes, and corrected the Semgrep Code vs OSS comparison link. All work tracked in a single commit (ff3c210a38b727b1f5a348cf1ce50c22c5083e4d) as part of issue #1821.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness99.2%
Maintainability99.4%
Architecture99.0%
Performance98.6%
AI Usage23.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashCSSJavaScriptMDXMarkdownPythonYAMLplaintext

Technical Skills

AI IntegrationAI integrationAPI IntegrationAPI integrationAPI managementAzure DevOpsBitbucketCI/CDCI/CD ConfigurationCI/CD integrationCloud IntegrationCode OrganizationComponent DevelopmentConfiguration ManagementContent Editing

Repositories Contributed To

4 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

semgrep/semgrep-docs

Oct 2024 Mar 2026
17 Months active

Languages Used

MarkdownJavaScriptYAMLMDXPythonCSSplaintextBash

Technical Skills

DocumentationAI IntegrationCI/CD ConfigurationContent ManagementPrivacy PolicyTechnical Writing

semgrep/mcp

Apr 2025 Apr 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

Markdown

Technical Skills

DocumentationTechnical Writing

semgrep/semgrep-network-broker

Apr 2025 Apr 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

Markdown

Technical Skills

Documentation

semgrep/semgrep

Sep 2025 Sep 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

Markdown

Technical Skills

Documentation