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Tessa Rodes
Sr. Manager of Design at Confluent
Tessa Rodes, Sr. Manager of Design at Confluent
Tessa Rodes: is a Senior Manager of Design at Confluent, a software company that provides a complete event streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. She joined Confluent in April 2022 and is based in Austin, Texas.12
Prior to Confluent, Tessa worked at IBM for over 8 years, where she held various design leadership roles, including:
- Senior Design Manager (February 2020 - April 2022)
- Senior Designer (October 2019 - February 2020)
- Design Team Lead for IBM Cloud (January 2018 - October 2019)
- Design Lead for IBM Bluemix (now IBM Cloud) (January 2017 - January 2018)
- Designer for IBM Bluemix (June 2014 - January 2017)
- Associate Designer at IBM (June 2013 - June 2014)1
Tessa has a Bachelor's degree in Journalism with a focus on Editing and Graphic Design from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also studied abroad at City University London, where she received First Class Honours in Visual Communications.1
In addition to her design work, Tessa has been recognized with several awards at IBM, including the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in March 2015 and the Best of IBM Award in May 2016.1
