Summary
Rachel Mahan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Richmond, VA with 10 years of experience building responsive front-end experiences and component libraries. She has led small teams and owned an internal CRM built with micro-frontends and microservices, mentoring junior engineers while driving maintainable patterns across React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Node.js stacks. Her background spans agency and product work, from full lifecycle client projects to integrating third-party APIs and search with ElasticSearch. A former teaching assistant for an intensive bootcamp, she pairs hands-on mentorship with practical engineering rigor. Early career roles in retail and visual arts inform her strong product sensibility and attention to UX and visual detail.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
June - August 2016, Computer Science, June - August 2016, Computer Science at Ironhack
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Fine Arts Photography, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Fine Arts Photography at Milligan College