Raquel Smith
Senior Full Stack Engineer - Growth at Brunch
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaquel Smith is a Senior Full Stack Engineer focused on growth at PostHog with nine years of experience building product-driven web applications. She combines front-end React work and back-end integrations to improve onboarding and signup flows, contributing notably to the popular open-source PostHog project by adding demo data, invite prompts, and feature-flagged UI improvements. Based in California, she brings product management and founder experience from roles at Dozuki, CookUp, and Brunch, allowing her to blend customer-focused product thinking with hands-on engineering. Her background in molecular biology and early lab work gives her a data-oriented, experimental mindset that informs rigorous A/B testing and analytics work. Colleagues describe her as fiercely persistent—an attribute she’s been colorfully labeled for twice in one day—paired with a pragmatic approach to shipping measurable growth.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Github Skills (16)
typescript10
provisioning10
feature-flags10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
react10
api8
user-interface8
testing8
apidoc8
python8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
back-end-development8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
PostHog/posthog
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
🦔 PostHog provides open-source web & product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host. Get started - free.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:806 reviews, 127 commits, 628 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Raquel's commits primarily focused on implementing features related to user onboarding within the PostHog platform. This involved modifying and creating React components for the frontend, integrating feature flags, and updating the backend logic. Key changes included prompting users to invite team members, generating demo data, and improving the overall user experience. Furthermore, the user worked on signup flow improvements by adding the role field and refactoring the signup form.
pythonabtestingdata-warehouseself-hostjavascript
raquelmsmith/rms-portfolio
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:111 commits, 90 PRs, 128 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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