Rachelle Palmer
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRachelle Palmer is a product leader and engineering manager with 7 years focused on developer experience, databases, and AI-driven application modernization, currently directing Forward Deployed AI Engineering at MongoDB. She has progressed through roles spanning SDKs, client libraries, frameworks, and cloud services, marrying deep technical oversight with product strategy to improve developer tooling and integrations. Her background includes leading large technical services teams, running resilience and security projects, and shaping cloud management products from program to delivery. An advisor to NIST’s AI Safety Institute and startups like ReadySet, she blends practical product delivery with a policy-aware perspective on AI. Based in Apex, NC, she brings a rare combination of hands-on technical product craft and strategic leadership across developer ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Political Science and African Studies, BA, Political Science and African Studies at Mount Holyoke CollegeMasters, Business Administration, Masters, Business Administration at Georgetown UniversityCertificate, Business Analytics, Certificate, Business Analytics at Indiana University - Kelley School of BusinessHarvard University
Spanish, German, Japanese
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Github Skills (68)
computer-science10
mongodb-driver10
database10
csharp10
mongodb10
driver10
nosql9
dotnet9
mongodb-database9
paper8
architecture8
clustering8
ruby8
cargo8
fastapi8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
techbelle/snowflake
Jul 2018 - May 2021
Employee Development Tool
Contributions:18 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 10 months
javascriptnodejsdevelopment-tool
techbelle/rust-example-app
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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