Summary
Rachel Daniel is a Senior Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends a creative background in musical theatre and accounting with deep technical chops in cloud-native platforms, full-stack development, and data integrations. She has built and maintained a cloud IDE and execution layer at dbt Labs using React/TypeScript, Python/Django, Go, and Kubernetes, and has architected data pipelines and ETL tooling with Python, Pandas, Luigi, and AWS. Comfortable leading re-platforming efforts and migrations, she favors pragmatic solutions that balance developer experience and operational reliability. Her career began in healthcare operations and analytics, which gives her a practical, customer-focused approach to troubleshooting complex systems and requirements. Colleagues value her collaborative mindset, rapid learning, and penchant for turning ambiguous problems into production-ready workflows. Based in Springfield, Missouri, she continues to diversify her technical portfolio while helping teams scale both technology and process.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Theatre Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Theatre Arts at University of Mississippi
Software Developer Six Month Bootcamp for Full-Stack Web Development (back end Python/Django), Software Developer Six Month Bootcamp for Full-Stack Web Development (back end Python/Django) at Nashville Software School