# Kathy Rodante > Elixir Dev / Joy Pollinator Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kathyrodante Compassionate and adaptive software engineer focusing on backend development and API connectivity. Deeply empathetic towards customers, clients, and coworkers and driven to improve people's lives. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Vetspire Jan 2024 – Present ### Lead Software Engineer @ Factored Quality Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Planned and created features for our Operations team and external clients using Elixir and Phoenix LiveView Implemented real-time data syncing with Anvyl (3rd-party API) using the Genservers and Collectors pattern Built standalone, reusable LiveView components Mentored new and junior engineers through pair programming and weekly Lunch-and-Learns Developed our infrastructure for unit testing with LiveView Previous and current speaker and host of Elixir conferences ### Engineering Manager @ The RealReal Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Senior Software Engineer @ The RealReal Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Rebuilt our customer address service using Elixir, Javascript, and Ruby. Built features to enhance our mobile website using Javascript. Rebuilt our Product Listing Pages and Product Detail Pages using the external Prismic CMS with Elixir on the backend. Enhanced our buyer personalization profiles by integrating Segment Personas and Audiences with Elixir. Created our “blog guild” and the TRR Product and Engineering Blog. ### Software Engineer @ Whistle Labs Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Contributed to our Timeline feature, which organized pets’ activities and locations within the previous 24 hours. Architected and created our Achievements feature as an Elixir service that communicated with our Rails monolith via RabbitMQ Facilitated communication with third-party APIs (Shopify, Trustpilot, Instagram, Facebook, Marketo, IFTTT, etc), both creating new integrations and enhancing current ones. Introduced rubocop to establish better code quality and education in the Engineering department. Upgraded our codebase from Rails 3.0 to 4.1. ### Backend Engineer @ Bleacher Report Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed, built, and maintained services as our company was breaking up our monolith Rails app and adopting SOA. Upheld code quality standards by adding Code Climate, Hound, and RSpec coverage to our GitHub repos. Worked heavily with third-party APIs (Facebook, Spredfast, etc) to manage data using Sidekiq worker processes. Participated in daily standups, code reviews, and two-week sprint sessions with local and remote developers. Monitored application alerts from New Relic daily and during on-call rotations. Services were typically written with Ruby 2.2.4 on Rails 4.2.4, or Elixir and Phoenix, using PostgreSQL and Redis on Docker containers. ### Web Developer @ Zillow Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Worked in an Agile environment using Ruby 1.9 and Rails 2.3 and performing various tasks among a full development stack. Participated in two-week sprints including SEO optimization, web responsive layouts for our mobile site, web crawlers and XML parsing, and site reskin and relaunch. ### Customer Care Representative @ Better World Books Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 I was responsible for translating and responding to mail from German and French customers who order items from Better World Books through various online markets, such as Amazon.de and Amazon.fr. ### English Teacher @ Royale English Services Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 I taught English to a wide variety of students. My classes ranged from young learners between 6 and 13 years old to adults taking private lessons, including HIV researchers at the local university. I also helped coordinate the class schedules and designed education materials and syllabi. ## Education ### Bachelor's in German Language and Literature University of Notre Dame ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kathy-rodante --- Source: https://flows.cv/kathyrodante JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kathyrodante/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31