Rachel Appel
Developer Advocate
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarRachel Appel is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains with over three decades of software creation experience and 12 years in professional roles focused on the Microsoft web stack. She combines hands-on expertise in Azure Functions, ASP.NET (MVC, Web Forms, Razor Pages, Blazor/SignalR), C#, and front-end technologies with a strong streak in documentation and community education, regularly speaking at major industry conferences. Her open-source and sample-work contributions include improving ASP.NET Core docs and crafting Azure CLI-driven Function App deployments, showing she bridges developer experience, cloud infrastructure, and clear technical writing. Based in Berlin, she pairs large-enterprise systems experience with a knack for polishing code samples and docs so teams can adopt modern patterns faster.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
doc10
markdown10
asp-net10
azure-functions10
cloud-infrastructure10
markdown-it10
asp-net-core10
documentation10
azure-cli10
resource-management9
bash9
script9
documentdb8
azure-storage8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs
Nov 2015 - Jul 2018
Documentation for ASP.NET Core
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:97 commits, 354 PRs, 345 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rachel's commits primarily involve documentation updates for the ASP.NET Core documentation repository. The contributions include fixing errors, adding notes about order and code changes, and adding and correcting code examples. These commits involve updates to documentation files, fixing formatting, and adding missing information, showing an emphasis on content improvement. The user also made edits to various code samples, including those related to identity and SignalR core, improving their quality and clarity.
aspnetaspasp-netnet-coreaspnet-core
Azure-Samples/azure-cli-samples
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contains Azure CLI scripts samples used for documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 7 days
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily worked on creating and configuring Azure Function Apps within the context of the Azure CLI. Their contributions included setting up function apps, connecting them to storage accounts and DocumentDB instances, and updating application settings. Furthermore, the user made modifications related to resource group creation and cleanup. The changes included the use of Azure CLI commands to deploy and configure Azure resources.
scripts-climicrosoftmicrosoft-docsazureazure-cli
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