Rachel King
Senior Software Engineer at Aligned (previously Squadformers)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel King is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building product features, developer tools, and platform infrastructure across startups and scale-ups. Based in New York, she excels at debugging, refactoring, and performance work in large, complex codebases and enjoys shipping work that has visible impact for users and operators alike. Her background includes cloud migrations, Kubernetes and Prometheus operations, and building critical healthcare billing and scheduling features, alongside full-stack product work. A Recurse Center alum, she favors sustainable, maintainable systems and practices like blameless postmortems and mentorship over “10x engineer” myths. Rachel combines hands-on backend proficiency (SQL, PHP, Go) with frontend and infra experience, and she’s led cross-functional efforts to consolidate service communications and improve resilience at scale. Outside immediate product work, she has a knack for translating messy data sources into reliable features—often by owning the end-to-end reconciliation and rollout.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, English at Lewis & Clark College
Github Skills (29)
monitoring9
bash9
shell8
versioning8
operator8
prometheus8
kubernetes-operator8
ruby8
kubernetes8
gecko7
prometheus-operator7
mozilla7
mercurial7
git-mirror7
firefox6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
macroscopicentric/clio
Sep 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 10 months
macroscopicentric/macroscopicentric.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 9 months
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