Katharine VanderDrift
Software Engineer and Digital Designer
Bio
Katharine VanderDrift has had a hand in growing and building companies that have touched millions of people with high value intellectual property including KahootzMedical and CloudCrowd. She led the development and ranking of websites in more than 20 highly search-competitive industries from health and beauty to legal services.
She lives with her husband Alex, son Winston and cat Grusha in San Francisco.
She holds a degree in Theater from UCSD.
I have been fortunate to have some cool press and contribute to different publications throughout my career. You can find some of them here:
I’m sexy and I didn’t know it (or, How Tiptopio gets US manufacturers top ranking in Google)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/holiday-shopping-online_b_2116633.html
http://vator.tv/news/2015-10-05-todays-entrepreneur-katharine-vanderdrift
http://vator.tv/news/2015-11-27-healthiest-is-the-honest-company-for-your-medicine-cabinet
https://digitalmarketingdepot.com/webcast/content-freshness-and-seo-for-large-sites
Career
Gem Joy
Summer 2018 – present
Gem Joy (formerly Code to Canvas) is the first line of augmented reality jewelry.
Code Art Project
July 2014 – Now
Code to Canvas merges the technology underworld of programing language with the traditional tools of fine art. Code is removed from its traditional context, a software program, and melded with graphic design, augmented reality and paint. Incubated at Gray Area Grand Theater, Mission San Francisco.
Healthiest.io – Engineer, Designer
March 2015 – April 2016
First engineer on team. Built company’s initial software and ran deployments. Designed homepage and internal pages.
Ruby, Javascript, Rails, Spree, AWS, Docker, Heroku
CloudCrowd/Servio – SEO Director
April 2010 – July 2012
Employee 13, Draper Fisher Funded
Selected Responsibilities:
1. Created a uniqueness threshold algorithm for health content.
2. Designed Keyword Research Credential (taken by over 15,000 online workers and used by over ten fortune thousand companies.)
3. Created project interfaces (used in production for the online workforce to complete work).
4. Built proof of concept products
5. Provided Sales Engineering support by creating and making presentations.
6. Featured Speaker for Promotional Webinars
KahootzMedical – Web Developer
Jan 2009 – Feb 2010
IP purchased by Intellectual Ventures. Maintainer (2009 – 2016)
Selected Responsibilities:
1. Built, hosted and designed company’s first website
2. Developed marketing material from white papers
3. Drove organic search traffic to corporate website
LAMP Stack