Rachel Aurand
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Aurand is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing services using Java and Kotlin within the Spring ecosystem. She brings polyglot expertise—Go, TypeScript and React alongside Java/Kotlin—and regular use of messaging and streaming technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ and Zookeeper to design resilient, distributed systems. At GitHub she focuses on scalable, production-grade services, leveraging observability tools like Micrometer and test tooling such as jUnit and Mockito to maintain reliability. Her background includes a technical advising stint early in her career and both BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from UC Davis, reflecting a long-standing commitment to engineering and mentorship. Colleagues value her pragmatic approach to shipping robust, well-tested services and her ability to bridge backend performance concerns with front-end integration needs.
11 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (101)
microservices10
cloud-native10
slf4j10
monitoring10
facade10
observability10
java10
react10
githubactions9
react-components9
javascript9
cdr9
matcher9
ocean9
jenkins-api-plugin9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
countableSet/antora-ui
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Fork of default antora ui.
Contributions:6 reviews, 66 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 1 month
antora
countableSet/semantic-version-plugin
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
automatic versioning for gradle publishing
Contributions:8 releases, 16 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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