Rachel Evans
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Evans is a seasoned software engineer and team leader with 11 years' experience building reliable, high-performance backend systems and managing Linux-based infrastructure. She played a key role in reinventing the BBC iPlayer backend for the cloud, delivering improved reliability, flexibility and predictable costs, and is now focused on driving further cost reductions and performance gains. Comfortable across TypeScript, Ruby, Java, Kubernetes and AWS, she blends hands-on coding with systems administration and a strong interest in security and design. Based in Copenhagen and educated in mathematics at the University of Southampton, she brings a data-driven mindset to architecting scalable services and mentoring teams. Notably, her background includes roles at BBC and Zendesk, reflecting experience in both large-scale consumer platforms and developer-centric products.
11 years of coding experience
BSc, Mathematics, BSc, Mathematics at University of Southampton
Github Skills (74)
swagger10
oas10
specification10
openapi10
rest10
webapi10
countdown9
updating9
monkey9
aws-sdk9
sdk8
ruby8
aws8
version-control8
vocabulary8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rvedotrc/append-only-public-notes
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Public notes from partially trusted sources
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 3 months
rvedotrc/relearning-python
May 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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