Summary
Rodolfo Yabut is an AI-native software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable front-end and full-stack systems across startups and public companies from San Francisco. He has led and mentored small teams, driven frontend architecture and performance initiatives, and migrated legacy business logic into a knowledge-graph powered system that supported a synthetic DNA manufacturer generating over $300M in annual revenue. As an independent principal engineer he delivered high-throughput data ingestion, mobile apps, and production web features for clients including YC startups and enterprise partners, and has a track record of establishing engineering standards that accelerate launches. At product companies like GoodRx, The RealReal, and Rollbar he focused on frontend platform scalability, Lighthouse/Performance improvements, and operational reliability. Comfortable bridging hands-on implementation and architectural strategy, he also brings an atypical background in heavy facilities engineering that informs his operational rigor and cross-disciplinary leadership.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
California State University, Northridge
English, javascript