Naoko Reeves
Staff Data Engineer
Litchfield Park, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolNaoko Reeves is a Staff Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building data pipelines, ML services, and backend systems, currently driving data-driven products at BlueOwl. She blends hands-on engineering (Python, Go, gRPC) with production ML deployment experience on SageMaker and practical NLP work—having built Rasa-powered chatbots and contributed backend and Slack-integration fixes to the popular open-source Rasa project. Her career spans designing pluggable ETL systems, search and analytics APIs, and migrating analytics backends (Elasticsearch to ClickHouse), showing strength in scaling both infrastructure and data workflows. A former engineering manager and technical lead, she brings CI/CD, DevOps, and team leadership expertise from projects using Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, RabbitMQ, and Celery. Based in Arizona and holding a CS degree with a 4.0, she pairs a unique humanities background in Japanese literature with deep technical craft, which informs clear product-focused engineering and cross-cultural collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 4.0, BS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Park UniversityJapanese literature, Japanese literature at 昭和女子大学 / Showa Women's University
Japanese
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Github Skills (25)
python10
rasa10
bot-framework10
nlp10
backend10
chatbot10
unit-testing9
celery9
security9
django9
beautifulsoup9
devops9
mocking9
slack9
pip6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RasaHQ/rasa
May 2018 - Mar 2019
💬 Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Naoko contributed to the Rasa core framework by implementing changes to the fallback policy, ensuring it doesn't repeatedly trigger in certain scenarios. They also modified the Slack integration, adding functionality to ignore Slack's retry attempts based on specific error conditions. Additionally, the user integrated changes related to the project's changelog and updated dependencies. These changes demonstrate proficiency in both backend logic and infrastructure/integration aspects of the project.
nlupythonbotspeech-recognitionbotkit
naoko/universal_sentence_encoder
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
Example apps using Universal Sentence Encoder
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
sentenceuniversal-sentence-encoderencoder
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