About Rachel
I'm a software engineer with a passion for creating excellence.
Since 2018, I've been full-time developing for a variety of industries and realms of projects. I began in web development, focusing on high quality front-end experiences that were SEO friendly, accessible, and UX driven.
Soon after, I migrated to working full-stack, thriving in building out complex systems and engineering creative solutions for solving challenging problems.
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to connect and discuss how we can collaborate.
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Experience
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Making Space
October 2023 - Present | Remote
Seed Stage startup in the disability hiring and education industry. Building with approximately 3 members on the Product/Engineering team.
* Create an automated system for translation of our entire site into multiple languages
* Design and build an accessible slide deck player experience using AWS Bedrock Sonnet AI for semantic screen reader transcripts
* Create a multi-form course builder wizard that allows partners to construct educational materials for our users.
Full Stack Software Engineer
AdRoll, a division of NextRoll
March 2022 - July 2023 (RIF) | Remote
* Create more email campaign insights for customers by using HighCharts, React, Redux, and Go
* Champion development of new geographical report by working across multiple microservices for data consolidation, exporting of data, and scheduling scripts
* Act as tech lead for reports redesign project
User Interface Developer
iRobot
September 2021 - March 2022 | Remote
* Personalize customers’ website user experience by developing customizable components in Salesforce Interaction Studio
* Coalesce iRobot’s web brand refresh with a new navigation header and footer by using SCSS and Javascript animation effects
* Spearhead effort to re-organize component system legacy code, resulting in a faster load speed for all pages with Interaction Studio components
Software Engineering Fellow
Hackbright Academy
April 2021 - July 2021 | Remote
* This selective program focuses on training software engineering with current technologies and development strategies.
* During the first half of this cohort, we spend hours in instruction and in group lab, pair programming and solving challenges together.
* The second half is spent developing a full- stack web application, meeting daily for scrum meetings and further lectures.
Skills: Python, Javascript, Flask, React, data structures, algorithims, mySQL, postgres, REST APIs, CSS
Web Developer
2U
December 2019 - April 2021 | Brooklyn, New York
* Develop and prioritize ongoing web updates on organic and paid web pages with partner programs using CSS (Flexbox, modified Bootstrap) and HTML to keep university websites current.
* Advise and coordinate with stakeholders on web accessibility (WCAG 2.0), user experience, marketing team priorities, and website best practices to ensure quality delivery on every page.
Web Developer
BHLDN / Anthropologie Weddings
August 2018 - November 2019 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Improve homepage load speed almost 1 second faster by implementing lazy-load and making recommendations on constraining the amount and type of page content
* Generate a wealth of e-commerce web content by developing creative marketing materials using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
* Perfect BHLDN’s resource lookbooks’ visual experience by interacting closely with designers during development, resulting in cross-browser compatible, mobile responsive, and user-friendly web pages
Tools & Technologies
Here are a few technologies and frameworks I've enjoyed working with:
- React.JS
- SASS/SCSS, Tailwind, Chakra UI, Design Systems
- Redux & RTK Query
- Next.JS
- Vanilla Javascript and DOM manipulation
- Python Flask
- Ruby on Rails
- AWS Suite (i.e. S3, Lambda, Cloudfront)
- Heroku
- SQL & PostgreSQL