# Kate Schwarz

> Sr Software Engineer at Clari

Location: Greater Orlando, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kateschwarz

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Clari
Jan 2022 – Present
• Acted as frontend technical lead and subject matter expert on the Inspection team, driving architectural decisions and mentoring developers
• Designed and led the implementation of a new, modular customer experience, delivering a scalable and reusable solution that enhanced flexibility and consistency across user journeys
• Collaborated with other teams to build application wide features to enhance the overall product offering for each module and promote consistency
• Spearheaded the redesign and refactor of a core application feature that resulted in a performance improvement of over 20%
• Partnered with other senior/staff frontend engineers across the company to create and support frontend best practices
• Created and executed plans to improve performance, developer experience, documentation, and frontend tech debt across the platform

### Senior Software Engineer @ Twilio Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
• Worked closely with design and product to revamp the experience of Twilio’s online portal called Console by building a brand new frontend and backend service for the sidebar and masthead navigation (React, Nodejs)
• Established a frontend platform team with one other engineer to give all product teams within Twilio the tools to easily deploy frontend code, collaborate, and create consistency throughout the Console
• Grew the team to 7 engineers within the first year and gained momentum in adoption of our tooling and guidelines
• Collaborated with external teams around the world to build consistent templates for all teams to use
• Mentored interns and more junior engineers and was the main onboarding buddy for new frontend engineers at Twilio
• Conducted coding interviews for our Console platform team as well as many other teams across the company (JavaScript, Python, Java)
• Began working on a Java backend service for error logs and alarms within the Console

### Software Engineer @ T-Mobile
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
• Contributed to the development of a frontend codebase for the user interface of a cable TV set top box product
• Acted as technical lead and direct point of contact for all questions and direction for external groups including product, design, and other engineering groups
• Overhauled the UI in a rebranding effort before launching to markets across the US
• Organized all frontend release builds and assisted in planning deployment and hotfixes
• Trained all new frontend engineers and contracting groups on our product and development workflow
• Conducted interviews and compiled feedback for hiring decisions

### Web Development Engineer @ Layer3 TV
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Denver Area
• Worked on the user interface for a video service on an embedded system
• Updated legacy code written in JavaScript - including bug fixes, refactoring, and unit tests
• Rewrote the user interface with a small team of engineers
• Collaborated with product and creative teams on custom feature requests
• Developed a custom tracking component that exported data to Google Analytics
    - Created charts and reports for executives to review data pertaining to the product
• Partnered with our back office and database management teams to expand and upgrade APIs


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Neuropsychology
University of Colorado Denver
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011

### Fullstack Web Development
Galvanize
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kateschwarz8

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Last updated: 2026-03-22