Rachel Myers
Engineering Lead at The Washington Post
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Myers is an engineering lead with eight years of professional software experience and a strong background in web and finance systems, currently leading teams at The Washington Post. She combines deep CS fundamentals from an MS at Georgia Tech with hands-on expertise in Java, Unix/Linux, UI engineering, and front-end frameworks like Angular and React. Rachel has a track record of owning end-to-end products—from creating admin UIs for trading platforms at Cboe to driving frontend quality initiatives and test-coverage goals. Known for mentoring and technical leadership, she has led cross-team integrations, onboarding, and recruitment efforts while improving performance and usability in complex systems. Based in Chicago and open to relocating to Raleigh-Durham, she brings a pragmatic mix of research lab rigor (Lawrence Livermore/NASA internships) and product-driven delivery that helps bridge operator, product, and engineering needs.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
amazon10
advertising10
doubleclick10
header-bidding6
prebid6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
washingtonpost/ArcAds
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
ArcAds is a DFP wrapper created by Arc XP with publishers in mind.
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 28 commits in 2 years 11 months
doubleclickprebidamazonpublishersarcads
WPMedia/arc-themes-blocks
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Arc Themes Blocks take in and display ANS data and custom pagebuilder settings. They consume Arc Themes Components
Contributions:3 reviews, 39 commits, 20 PRs in 1 month
pagebuilderconsumethemesarcsettings
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