Rachel Charow
Staff Software Engineer at Alkami Technology
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Charow is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a 9-year track record as a full‑stack developer building web and mobile applications across startups and larger teams. She brings strong expertise in JavaScript/MEAN-stack development paired with a deep background in GIS, having built mapping and emergency-response tools and managed ArcGIS server environments earlier in her career. Known for clean code and continuous learning, she prioritizes team productivity, empathy, and cross-level mentorship to help diverse teams grow. Based in Portland, Maine, Rachel moves between product-focused engineering at companies like Shopify and Alkami and hands-on technical problem solving, often blending spatial data insights with user-facing features. An advocate for better team communication, she actively seeks ways to make development both more efficient and more enjoyable.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bucknell UniversityFullstack JavaScript Immersive Program JavaScript - focusing on the MEAN stack, Fullstack JavaScript Immersive Program JavaScript - focusing on the MEAN stack at Fullstack AcademyGIS Applications Specialist Geographic Information Systems, GIS Applications Specialist Geographic Information Systems at Sir Sandford Fleming CollegeB.A. Environmental Studies Environmental Studies, B.A. Environmental Studies Environmental Studies at University of VermontStowe High School valedictorian
Github Skills (9)
mongoose4
expressjs3
redux2
react2
nodejs2
mongodb2
boilerplate2
graphql1
typescript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rcharow/JiraSprintAnalyzer
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
analyzingsprintjira
rcharow/stack-o-beer
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:51 PRs, 43 pushes, 52 branches in 9 days
reactboilerplateexpressjsexpressnodejs
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