Summary
Rachel Nash is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack systems, currently shaping observability features at Datadog in New York. A Cornell Computer Science graduate, she progressed rapidly through Datadog from Software Engineer I to Senior since joining in 2020, demonstrating strong product-facing engineering and ownership. Her background includes internships at Cisco and Ab Initio and early front-end work on campus projects, reflecting a blend of backend rigor and thoughtful UX. Comfortable across the stack, she focuses on shipping reliable, scalable services and improving developer workflows. Based in Ithaca, she brings an engineer’s curiosity and practical polish—equally at home optimizing production systems and iterating on user-facing interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Cornell University
English, Italian