Kate Travers
Former art shipper; current code shipper.
Kate Travers is a Brooklyn-based fullstack web developer, specialising in Rails, React, and Elixir applications. A graduate of the Flatiron School, Kate currently spends her days building Learn.co, the online learning platform that powers FIS and 2U programs.
Outside work, Kate is an active volunteer, tutor and mentor through Flatiron School, as well as backup quarterback for the three-time-defending champions of the Brooklyn co-ed touch football league.
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Kate Travers’ Journey from Art shipping to Elixir Senior Engineer
Kate is building ‘learn.co,’ a learning management system with added interactivity and community features. The system only needs one click to “Open IDE” and launch a functional development environment right in the browser. Flatiron are particularly excited about this feature because it allows students new to coding to get a taste of programming with real tools that developers use on the job. Unlike a REPL (a read-eval-print-loop) that executes a few lines of simple code, the IDE allows students to experience the more complex interaction between editing different files and executing them from a command line, all in browser.
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