Rachel Hiemstra
Chief Of Staff To CTO at MagicSchool AI
Englewood, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Hiemstra is a product and operations leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling technology and education initiatives across e-learning, retail re-commerce, and public-sector programs. Currently Chief of Staff to the CTO at MagicSchool AI, she partners product, engineering, and strategy to translate ambiguous visions into operational roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Past roles include Chief Product Officer for Colorado’s Universal Preschool rollout and senior leadership at Craftsy and The Pro’s Closet, where she led rapid scaling, major system implementations, and multi-fold throughput gains. She’s skilled at aligning cross-functional teams, driving change management, and launching products across early- and late-stage organizations. Unusually for a product leader, her background spans classroom teaching, strategic communications, and hands-on tech operations—giving her a rare fluency in policy, pedagogy, and product execution. Based in Englewood, Colorado, she combines civic-minded impact with commercial growth experience.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts Sociology, Master of Arts Sociology at Stanford University
Github Skills (44)
lightning10
software-design10
bitcoin10
html10
backend10
julia10
ruby9
mvc9
rails9
activerecord9
serverless8
ruby-on-rails8
github8
serverless-framework8
aws-lambda8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
turingschool-examples/homework
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
rwarbelow/the_swot_bot
Aug 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:420 commits in 9 months
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