Rachel Sheikh

@rachelsheikh
Staff Software Engineer
Seattle, WA
she/her/hers

Mentor

Speaker

Dog Owner

Golang

Python

AWS

Graph QL

Musician

Coding

Award Winner

Open Source

Software Engineering

Hackathon Attendee

Systems Designer

League of Legends

I’m an engineer with a focus on building out scalable and resilient distributed systems, mentoring and growing engineering talent/teams, and empowering meaningful user experiences

I'm open to

open source contributions,

giving resume feedback,

guest lecturing,

joining company boards,

mentoring,

speaking at events,

advising companies,

speaking on podcasts,

beta testing new products,

co-founding a company,

freelance roles,

and full time roles.

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May 2023 - Present

Staff Software Engineer, Cash App

Sep 2022 - Present

Staff Software Engineer, Peloton Interactive

Feb 2022 - Present

Engineering Lead, Dora

Jun 2022 - Present

Mentor / Interviewer, Interviewing.io

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Gave a talk on a WebRTC project I built from the ground up at KubeCon! https://youtu.be/GrozSkmVHdw

Writing new APIs to support a brand new discovery tab on the Twitter apps

Launched a new discovery tab into beta at Twitter! https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/twitter-redesigns-its-mobile-app-to-make-spaces-the-center-tab/?tpcc=ECTW2020

Working on some under-the-hood improvements to the Spaces Discovery Tab to streamline load times and first paint