Kathleen Gilbert

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in cloud services and high-throughput production environments.
Proven track record in optimizing CI/CD processes.
Strong background in backend development with modern technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentSoftware TestingWeb Development

Other Skills

CI/CDPipeline ManagementIntegration TestingGogRPCGoogle Cloud PubSubMySQLElasticsearchKubernetesTypeScriptNodeReactSQLData WarehousingApache Spark

About

Software engineer experienced in designing, building and deploying cloud services in high-throughput production environments. Technologies: Go (Golang), Python, Node.js, JavaScript / TypeScript, GCP, AWS, Docker / Kubernetes, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Argo, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, React, HTML / CSS

Experience

8 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Postman

Back End Engineer

Oct 2025 – Present · 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

Nordstrom

Back End Engineer

Dec 2024 – Oct 2025 · 10 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

Volunteered refactor of company-wide CI/CD pipeline lint process that sped up stage time from ~10 minutes to ~1 minute
Refactored integration tests for central checkout service supporting e-commerce and in-store transactions for Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack, cutting test time from ~12 minutes to ~3 minutes

Avoxi

Software Engineer

Aug 2020 – May 2024 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Remote

Resolved endemic race conditions in a key workflow by designing and implementing a new state management pattern tracking user phone presence
Designed, developed and deployed workflows for global voice web application using Go, gRPC, Google Cloud PubSub, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Node and React
Managed production deployments as primary on-call
Worked on system monitoring and automated testing enhancements: designed and exported service metrics via Prometheus, built Grafana dashboards, augmented E2E automated testing via Cypress
Conducted bi-weekly technical demos and led volunteer technical deep-dive presentations

Adp

Software Engineer

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Created vertical slices for product features in React, Node, and Go, backed by Elasticsearch
Deployed services via Jenkins CI/CD; monitored deployments with Datadog and Kibana
Collaborated with DevOps team as on-call SME for highly-adopted team project to diagnose and debug production issues