Elaine Watanabe
Senior Software Engineer at The RealReal
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolElaine Watanabe is a Senior Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 11+ years building web and distributed systems, currently focusing on Elixir and Ruby at The RealReal. She blends strong engineering fundamentals (SOLID, DDD, FP) with hands-on experience across Phoenix, Rails, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and cloud platforms to deliver resilient, test-driven architectures and microservices. Elaine has a research background (Master’s studies at USP) and interests in data-parallelism, energy-aware scheduling and scientific workflows, which inform her pragmatic approach to scalable data-intensive systems. She’s an experienced mentor and technical leader who runs onboarding, 1:1s, pair programming, and hiring interviews, and advocates for accessibility and inclusive tech communities like Rails Girls SP. A frequent conference speaker and content creator, Elaine pairs academic curiosity with production discipline—fun fact: she’s a former Taiko drummer who brings the same rhythm to team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Escola Técnica Presidente VargasComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidade Braz CubasUniversity of São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Japanese, French
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Github Skills (64)
fonts10
realtime10
translation10
elixir10
css10
logos10
svg10
branding10
font-awesome10
svg-font10
woff10
iconic10
google-fonts10
row9
api-server9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elainenaomi/sciwonc-dataflow-examples
May 2016 - Jul 2020
Examples of sciwonc dataflow module usage
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
dataframepythondataflowdataframes
elainenaomi/dotfiles
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:53 commits, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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