She has worked on a variety of internal developer workflow tools, including tools for reviewing, searching, editing and analyzing source code. She created the Tricorder analysis platform, which analyzes 30k code review changes each workday. She is furthermore the author of several papers related to developer workflow at Google. Caitlin received her computer science Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she worked with Cormac Flanagan and Jim Whitehead on a variety of research topics related to Programming Languages, Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction.