Kate R.

About Kate R.

Hands-on Principal Software Engineer / Architect with 20+ years of experience building greenfield scalable cloud-native applications, leading cross-functional teams, and modernizing legacy systems. Passionate about applying cutting-edge technology to solve real-world problems. Expert in cloud platforms, service-oriented architecture, event-driven systems and DevOps practices. Proven ability to deliver secure, high-performance systems, drive engineering best practices, and mentor engineering teams. Experienced in collaborating across product, research, data and engineering teams to align technical initiatives with business goals. Mom to teenagers, dogs and poultry. Home chef. DIY-er. Green thumb. Runner. Yogi.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Paradigm Health

   Aug 2025 — Present

   Working closely with Product, Design, Data and ML teams to lead development of new products built in Kotlin, Spring and React; Terraform/OpenTofu AWS cloud infrastructure (CodeArtifact, DynamoDB, EKS, Elasticache Valkey, IAM, S3, Secrets Manager) for KubeRay ML workloads (Ray on Kubernetes); observability and monitoring eng with Datadog; cache architecture comparison, performance analysis, tuning for documents and LLM embeddings; Gitlab CI/CD workflow development;

Education

• University of Florida

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Perl
• Jquery UI
• Jenkins
• C#
• Json
• Css
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Sql
• Postgis
• Mapserver
• Nginx
• Linux
• Object Oriented Design
• Amazon Ec2
• Ruby on Rails
• Angularjs
• Agile Methodologies
• Etl
• Bash
• Web Services
• Software Engineering
• Vb.net
• Xml
• Database Design
• Rest
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Web Development
• Html
• Gruntjs
• Software Development
• Python
• Ajax
• Android Development
• Mvc
• Visual Studio
• Amazon S3
• Node.js
• Subversion
• Mysql