# Emmanuel Butor

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emmanuelbutor

I am a software developer with about 2 years of professional experience building and maintaining web applications. I have professional experience with the software development life cycle with Agile. I have used Ruby on Rails, Elixir, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in my professional career. During my education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, I have also learned many other languages and frameworks such as React, Node.js, C++, C#, Java, and many more. I'm always ready and willing to learn new technologies and languages to continue improving upon my skills in software development.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Academia.edu
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ The RealReal
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Built and maintained features for a Ruby on Rails web application in an Agile team practicing
Scrum, using JIRA for ticket tracking.
• Improved employee productivity by 5% by accelerating performance data access time from 2 minutes to
5 seconds through integrating the performance data into the internal web tool with Rails, JavaScript,
and SCSS.
• Increased product quality control process time by 35% and exception reporting accuracy by 30% by
creating a web tool that streamlines this previously manual task using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript,
SCSS, Elixir, and PostgreSQL.
• Led research on new technologies and libraries to integrate with our software by creating pro and con
charts in Notion to facilitate discussions with the team, resulting in adopting multiple libraries which
improved the design of user interfaces.
• Leveraged MySQL Workbench and Postico (PostgreSQL) to test and validate database interactions
for new features, ensuring all queries functioned as intended and met performance requirements.

### MSI Tutor @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Cruz, California, United States
Tutored an accelerated introduction to programming course at UCSC.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-butor
- Portfolio: https://emman-b.github.io/
- GitHub: https://github.com/Emman-B

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Last updated: 2026-04-11