Rahel Lüthy
Principal AI & UX Architect at Scalable Rahel Lüthy
Switzerland
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Top SchoolRahel Lüthy is a Principal AI & UX Architect and seasoned software developer with 13 years of professional experience, blending a foundation in evolutionary biology with deep expertise in data visualization and scientific decision-support systems. She co-founded and developed the Peerview app, teaches and researched at FHNW, and now shapes AI and user experience at Gradle Technologies while running her own consulting practice. Rahel contributes to notable open-source projects such as the vavr functional Java library and scalajs-react, improving core collections and SVG robustness—work that signals attention to code quality across back-end and front-end domains. Her background in theoretical biology gives her a systems-thinking approach to software design, often surfacing non-obvious patterns in data and interaction. Outside tech she balances creativity and discipline as a guitarist, yogini, gardener and dog person, which informs a pragmatic yet curious leadership style. Based in Switzerland, she brings academic rigor, entrepreneurial experience, and hands-on engineering to complex AI/UX challenges.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200), Yogalehrer-Ausbildung/Yogatherapie, Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200), Yogalehrer-Ausbildung/Yogatherapie at Yoga Veda SchweizMatura, Typus C, Matura, Typus C at Kantonsschule ZofingenMaster of Science - MS, Evolutionary Biology, Master of Science - MS, Evolutionary Biology at University of Basel
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Github Skills (24)
algorithm10
algorithms10
immutable-collections10
data-structure10
java10
scala10
javas10
svg10
scalajs10
data-structures10
functional-programming10
functional-programming-language10
react10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
japgolly/scalajs-react
Sep 2016 - Sep 2018
Facebook's React on Scala.JS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Rahel focused on maintaining and updating SVG tag definitions within the `scalajs-react` project. Their contributions involved synchronizing the SVG tags with the MDN reference, ensuring accuracy and completeness. The user addressed case sensitivity issues in SVG tags, improving the robustness of the component. They also added deprecation aliases, supporting backward compatibility.
jsreactscalareactjsscalajs
vavr-io/vavr
Nov 2015 - May 2016
vʌvr (formerly called Javaslang) is a non-commercial, non-profit object-functional library that runs with Java 8+. It aims to reduce the lines of code and increase code quality.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 18 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rahel primarily contributed to the Javaslang/vavr library by implementing new features and fixing existing functionality. The commits show the addition of search functionality to `IndexedSeq` and `LinearSeq` classes, demonstrating work on core collection data structures. Furthermore, the user fixed various typos and addressed auto-(un)boxing issues, indicating a focus on code quality and optimization within the library's core functionality. The user also introduced a convenience method `entry` for `Map` objects.
javajavaslangfunctional-programmingobject-functionalimmutable-collections
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