Rachel Berkowitz
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Berkowitz is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with a decade of hands-on engineering experience and a broader 15-year trajectory bridging technical and operational roles. She has progressed from revenue and partner operations at Twitter to platform and product engineering at Lifion and Eden Health, and now designs scalable systems at Spotify. Trained through Fullstack Academy's immersive program after an AB in Comparative Literature, she blends rigorous problem-solving with strong communication and cross-functional collaboration. Rachel is comfortable operating across the stack and the org chart—translating business needs into reliable, production-ready software. Her background as a Fulbright Scholar and experience in client-facing roles gives her a rare mix of cultural literacy and customer empathy that informs product decisions. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who pairs technical depth with an eye for operational impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Immersive, Software Engineering Immersive at The Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack AcademyCertificate German, Certificate German at Middlebury CollegeAB Comparative Literature, AB Comparative Literature at University of Chicago
English, German, Italian
Github Skills (7)
bit7
8-bit6
twilio4
firebase3
firestore2
javascript1
nodejs1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
brkwtz/witch-hotline
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 days
twiliofirebasehostfirestore
brkwtz/archillension
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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