Summary
Rachel Takeuchi is a Senior Customer Architect with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently applying her technical and customer-facing skills at Elastic after multi-year roles at Uber focused on threat detection and response. She has a strong full-stack background from her early career at Minted—where she helped transform the product marketplace and built internal tools to streamline operations—combined with hands-on security platform experience at Uber. Rachel blends systems design, operational tooling, and pragmatic product thinking to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions that reduce team load and accelerate feature delivery. Trained at the University of Waterloo, she brings a methodical, user-oriented approach to solving complex infrastructure and security problems, with a track record of moving ideas from prototype to production. An unspoken strength is her ability to bridge engineering and operations, making technical projects easier for non-engineering teams to own.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Valleyview Secondary School
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo