Rachel Vander Vliet
Software Engineer at DeVine Consulting, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Vander Vliet is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scientific data-reduction tools, currently developing command-line and GUI systems for SOFIA’s airborne infrared observatory at NASA Ames. She specializes in translating legacy IDL astronomy code into maintainable Python packages and packaging software for distribution, bridging research-grade analysis with production-ready tooling. Her background includes developing cosmological simulation code during a Ph.D. in Astronomy and hands-on hardware testing early in her career, giving her a rare blend of observational, computational, and instrumentation perspectives. Based in Sunnyvale, she focuses on making complex pipeline outputs accessible and reliable for observers and analysts, often working at the intersection of user-facing tools and backend data processing.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Physics, Bachelor, Physics at Colorado State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy at New Mexico State University
Github Skills (2)
pipeline6
kubernetes4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jrvliet/mockspec
Aug 2015 - Apr 2020
Full Pipeline
Contributions:413 commits, 1 PR, 117 pushes in 4 years 8 months
kubernetespipeline
jrvliet/analysis
Sep 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:369 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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