Clare Curtis
Software Engineer at Figma
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolClare Curtis is a seasoned backend and infrastructure software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, reliable platforms that empower developer productivity. Based in Austin, she led Compute/Kubernetes at Coinbase—founding the Compute team, designing the company-wide Kubernetes platform, and driving the migration of roughly 4,000 deployments to Kubernetes. Her background spans reliability-focused roles at Yelp and early engineering and teaching experiences at UIUC, bringing both production rigor and an educator’s clarity to complex systems. Now at Figma, she continues to focus on high-impact infrastructure that makes systems and teams more effective, with a track record of turning platform investments into measurable operational improvements.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (82)
schema-migrations10
migration10
migration-tool10
k8s9
percona9
file-generator9
mysql9
database-access9
autoscaling9
rule9
starlark8
user-guide8
mysql-proxy8
gazelle8
aws-cloudformation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coinbase/rules_ruby
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
Bazel Ruby Rules
Contributions:2 reviews, 38 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 1 month
bazelrubyrules-rubyrulesbazel-rules
ClareCat/fullerite
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
golangcollectdaemoncollect-metricsprometheus
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