Rachel Spies

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with strong expertise in Ruby and project leadership.

Software EngineeringRuby On RailsSoftware Development

RubyTypescriptGoUser ResearchData AnalysisProject ManagementScalable SoftwareMVP DevelopmentUI TestingAutomationRailsPythonJavaLaTeXDjango

12 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · San Carlos, California, United States

Working on Copilot, in Ruby, Typescript and Go
Worked on a 3-person team to improve slow query performance, sped up performance by up to 70%.
Lead work to ship GitHub’s Private Profiles feature. Worked alongside privacy and legal teams, to define a clear scope from a complex set of requirements.
Focused on improving the experiences of large maintainers by performing both qualitative and quantitive research in the form of conducting a user research study and making sense of large datasets.

RubyTypescriptGoUser ResearchData AnalysisSoftware Engineering+1

Aug 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · 41 Winter St

Worked alongside existing development teams, to help ship new features, build more scalable software and improve software development practices.
Managed a small team, mentoring individuals, and finding them growth opportunities.
Helped startups ship their first MVPs

Software DevelopmentScalable SoftwareMVP Development

Jun 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs · Cambridge, MA

Jun 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Boston

Automated clypd’s UI testing environment to run on Jenkins development servers.
Standardized and automated testing procedures across company’s UI services.
Used Rails to access information from TV database and display within clypd’s UI framework.
Seventh member of the start-up engineering team

UI TestingAutomationRailsSoftware Engineering