Rachel Fine is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with nine years of professional experience who blends a strong tech toolkit—React, JavaScript, Scala, Spark, Kafka, PHP, and React Native—with a decade-plus background in education and social work. She has shipped user-focused web and data engineering solutions at companies including Etsy and Exygy while advising nonprofit technology strategy to amplify social impact. Rachel excels at translating human-centered needs into robust product and data workflows, informed by hands-on teaching and program leadership that scaled youth outcomes and raised substantial funding. Comfortable mentoring engineers and students alike, she previously taught and designed curriculum at Fullstack Academy and led cohorts through complex API and architecture topics. Her career arc reveals a rare combination of technical depth in streaming/data systems and empathy-driven product design that prioritizes real-world outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack Academy
Master of Social Work (MSW) Community Organizing Planning and Development, Master of Social Work (MSW) Community Organizing Planning and Development at Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theater and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theater and Mathematics at Oberlin College
Contributions:11 PRs, 25 pushes, 14 branches in 16 days
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