Rachel Forshee
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Forshee is a senior software engineer based in Seattle with seven years of experience building and maintaining developer-facing platforms and data pipelines that ensure timely delivery of high-integrity metrics. She specializes in developer productivity and platform reliability—owning CI/CD pipelines, GitHub integrations, automated feature and performance testing, and long-lived Ruby on Rails maintenance with on-call responsibilities. Rachel has driven migrations to Kubernetes, designed event-driven systems, and improved operational workflows at companies from Amazon to Elastic and Sprout Social, often surfacing actionable metrics from noisy telemetry. An active full‑stack contributor to the open-source xivanalysis project, she’s comfortable refactoring legacy modules into TypeScript and extending tooling to support niche use cases like game performance analysis. Practical and detail-oriented, she blends hands-on coding with technical leadership to reduce operational load and increase engineering throughput.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of KentuckyWestern Kentucky University
German, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
typescripts10
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ffi10
react10
typescript-types10
ff10
front-end-development9
back-end-development8
architectures7
architecture7
automation6
automations6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xivanalysis/xivanalysis
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Automated performance analysis and suggestion platform for Final Fantasy XIV
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 18 PRs, 29 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily contributed to the development of performance analysis modules for the Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) platform. Their work involved rewriting existing modules like InnerRelease in TypeScript, which included significant code refactoring and potentially improved maintainability. The user also created new support modules for the Gunbreaker (GNB) job, demonstrating an ability to integrate and extend the platform's functionality to support new content. Additionally, the user made UI and style fixes across the modules.
performance-analysistlaanalysisfinal-fantasy-xivperformance
rachellhea/xivanalysis
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Automated performance analysis and suggestion platform for Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood.
Contributions:54 pushes, 18 branches in 11 months
performance-analysisfinal-fantasy-xivperformancexivsuggestion
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