Rachel Williams
Software Engineer at CommonLit
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRachel Williams is a full-stack software engineer in Seattle with eight years of professional experience and a focus on React and Ruby on Rails, currently building product at CommonLit. She transitioned from a senior manufacturing and bioprocess background—where she led quality-driven process improvements and GMP operations at Genentech and Nohla Therapeutics—bringing exceptional practical rigor to software delivery. Rachel excels at collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems that improve people’s lives, pairing user-facing React work with backend Rails services. Her blend of life-sciences operational discipline and modern web development makes her particularly effective on reliability, testing, and process automation efforts.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology with an emphasis in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology with an emphasis in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior at University of California, DavisSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Github Skills (6)
rails-api6
api5
javascript4
rails4
ruby-on-rails4
ruby3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
racheladaw/concert-buddy-frontend
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 167 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
racheladaw/habit-tracker-rails-app
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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