Isabel Suchanek
Software Engineer at RevenueCat
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIsabel Suchanek is a software engineer in Seattle with eight years of experience building resilient cloud-native systems and infrastructure tooling. She transitioned from a Ph.D. track in art history to engineering, bringing a strong habit of careful research and clear communication to complex technical problems. Isabel has shipped production-grade backend and DevOps work at companies like HashiCorp—where she improved Nomad’s Docker driver and added a deployment monitor to the CLI—and at cloud-focused startups including Pulumi and RevenueCat. She specializes in resilience engineering, orchestration, and migrations (zero-downtime DynamoDB/S3 moves), and is comfortable across Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS. Outside code, her Lego-minded modular approach to systems design and bilingual background (half Peruvian, English/Spanish experience) inform a collaborative, creative engineering style.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Art History, French, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Art History, French at Washington University in St. LouisPh.D. Candidate, History of Art, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art at University of Pennsylvania
French, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
docker10
go10
nomad10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
event-handling9
testing9
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 25 commits, 16 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Isabel primarily contributed to the Docker driver within the Nomad workload orchestrator, implementing features and fixing bugs related to container management. Their work focused on enhancing Docker support for the `STOPSIGNAL` directive in Dockerfiles, improving the container stopping process. The user also addressed test flakiness and added functionality to the CLI for monitoring deployments, indicating proficiency in both back-end system development and operational aspects of the project. Furthermore, they are involved with the codebase's event handling by fixing namespace related issues.
consulmicroservicesvault
SesameSeeds/betsy
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:37 PRs, 105 pushes, 27 branches in 26 days
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