Rachel White
Technical Evangelist at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRachel White is a Technical Evangelist based in New York with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience and 16 years speaking and community engagement, having delivered over 100 international talks. She blends frontline front-end development chops from roles at IBM, Behance, and 10up with developer experience and advocacy leadership at American Express, Microsoft, and Datadog. Comfortable explaining complex cloud services, bots, and Node.js, she excels at turning platform capabilities into practical demos and teachable moments. Rachel’s background in graphic design gives her a strong design-first sensibility, which informs polished developer tooling and UX-focused demos. Outside work she has a playful side—into cats, horror, games, and glitchy graphics—which often surfaces in creative, memorable presentations. Colleagues rely on her to bridge engineering, design, and community to make technical ideas accessible and engaging.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fashion Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Science (A.S.), Graphic Design, Associate of Science (A.S.), Graphic Design at Art Institute of PittsburghBachelor of Science (B.S.), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Graphic Design at Art Institute of Philadelphia
Github Skills (179)
photon10
tsc10
windows10
distributed-tracing10
profiling10
pwm10
beaglebone-black10
monitoring10
javascript10
corpus10
linux10
js10
observability10
stackdriver10
rocket10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rachelnicole/whatcat
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 6 months
facial-expressionskittyfacialface-detectionexpressions
rachelnicole/robokitty
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 26 days
feederjavascriptdiynodejsdog
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