Rachel Shen
Software Engineer II at Elastic
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Shen is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience focused on front-end engineering and UX improvements, currently contributing to Elastic's flagship Kibana project from Littleton, Colorado. She has progressed through roles at Elastic from support to engineering, giving her a strong product- and customer-oriented perspective when fixing UI/UX issues and migrating React/EUI components. Her open-source contributions to the high-profile elastic/kibana repo include nuanced fixes like legend action popover focus handling and toolbar/component migrations that improve accessibility and developer ergonomics. Trained at Hackbright Academy and with a liberal arts background from Bryn Mawr, she blends disciplined engineering with research-minded problem solving. Rachel’s history in support and QA means she surfaces real-world edge cases early, reducing rework downstream. She’s pragmatic, detail-focused, and skilled at turning production feedback into polished front-end solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hackbright AcademyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology and Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology and Psychology, Magna Cum Laude at Bryn Mawr College
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Github Skills (10)
component-development10
eui10
uid10
elastic-ui10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:449 reviews, 26 commits, 323 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rachel's contributions primarily focused on front-end development within the Kibana project. They addressed UI/UX issues by fixing focus on legend action popovers in Lens, XY, and shared UX components. Furthermore, they worked on migrating solution toolbar buttons and redirect app links, demonstrating experience with EUI components and component migration. This involves modifications to React components, suggesting the use of Typescript and potentially a focus on improving the user experience.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
rshen91/eui
Jun 2021 - Jun 2024
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Contributions:3 PRs, 44 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 11 months
elasticframeworkelastic-uiui-framework
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