Rayta Van Rijswijk
Senior Engineering Manager at RailsGirls Nederland
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRayta Van Rijswijk is a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub with a decade of experience bridging management and engineering to deliver reliable, cloud-native systems. She combines hands-on technical fluency across Ruby on Rails, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, and major cloud platforms with strong people skills as a facilitator, mediator and connector between engineering, product and C-level stakeholders. An energetic organizer and community builder, Rayta leads RailsGirls Nederland, Amsterdam.rb and helped run EuRuKo2019, demonstrating a long-standing commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion in tech. Known for hosting conferences and moderating panels, she brings more than just process—she injects energy and tangible networking opportunities that accelerate team collaboration and hiring pipelines. Based in Amsterdam, she pairs pragmatic delivery focus with a knack for turning meetups and events into meaningful talent and learning ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
HEAO, HEAO at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
react-component10
ruby9
designer9
pattern-lab8
devrel8
elixir8
ruby-on-rails8
nodejs8
react-components8
monitoring7
octicons7
plug7
clarity7
file-parser7
documentation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raytalks/rayta.dev
May 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 6 months
raytalks/dotfiles
Mar 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
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