Rachel Lum
Senior Software Engineer at Slack
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRachel Lum is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building front-end experiences at Slack, specializing in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, and Redux to craft seamless, user-focused interfaces. Her background in dance, math instruction, and fitness informs a unique blend of disciplined problem-solving, clear communication, and an emphasis on movement-like fluidity in UX and code. She progressed through multiple frontend roles at Slack, demonstrating technical growth and leadership on large-scale collaboration products. Rachel excels at translating user needs into elegant interactions, mentoring teammates, and running cross-functional initiatives with strong time-management and training skills. Outside of work she builds playful, social apps—most recently Weegle, an interactive charades-style game—reflecting her interest in creative, community-driven software.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Certificate, Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering, Web Development Certificate, Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron SchoolUMBC
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lumrachele/we-workout
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Mod 2 Project
Contributions:32 commits, 11 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 months
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lumrachele/js-beatles-loops-lab-bootcamp-prep-000
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:104 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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