Rachel Nehmer
Founding Staff Software Engineer at Nuanced
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRachel Nehmer is a Founding Staff Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of professional software experience and a background that spans research labs, startups, and major platforms. She has built production-facing features and infrastructure at GitHub—helping combat abuse at scale and shipping foundational capabilities for Projects—and most recently led systems and monitoring work for wildfire detection at the University of Oregon. Comfortable across full-stack, platform, and geospatial tooling, Rachel has delivered everything from mobile spatial SDKs to complex Ruby on Rails migrations and scalable automation/webhook systems. Her career shows a steady thread of turning research and legacy systems into maintainable, production-quality services, and she brings hands-on execution to early-stage product and infrastructure challenges as a founding engineer.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of OregonBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Github Skills (72)
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arcgis10
mysql-client10
arcgis-js-api10
esri-leaflet10
esri10
javascript9
points9
mysqljs9
feature-service9
marker9
web-development9
leaflet9
gis9
wrapping8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kneemer/kneemer.github.io
Aug 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
kneemer/esri-leaflet-renderers
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 66 branches in 1 year 1 month
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