Nikita Rau
Software Engineer at Girls Who Code
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Rau is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building product-focused web platforms and growth infrastructure, currently driving onboarding and tiered-pricing initiatives at Freed. Her background spans high-impact teams at Spotify and Bloomberg, where she shipped SEO improvements, server-side rendering experiments, and a Scala data pipeline to generate dynamic sitemaps for concert indexing. She pairs frontend expertise (React, JS) with backend and data engineering chops, and has led engineering projects for nonprofits and served as a recruiting captain and mentor. A Berkeley CS & Cognitive Science graduate and Climatebase fellow, she also volunteers to advance diversity in tech through Girls Who Code leadership—bringing a rare blend of product growth instinct and cross-domain curiosity to every role.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Cognitive Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Cognitive Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at The University of EdinburghHigh School, High School at The Bronx HS of Science
Kannada, French
Github Skills (22)
codemirror9
graphiql7
vscode6
portal6
monaco-editor6
graphql5
browser5
ide5
ecosystem4
testing4
admin4
matching4
react4
flutter3
router3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikitr/nikitr.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 years 4 months
nikitr/160prog03
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
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