Rebecca Ely is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack features and improving developer-facing tools. At Bloomberg since 2016 she has focused on shipping production-quality software at scale, while her open-source contributions to JupyterLab demonstrate a knack for improving user interfaces and extensible architecture—adding markdown reference features, modularizing the HTML sanitizer as a plugin, and enabling new file-type commands. Her background spans technical and research roles from clinical trials to international development, giving her a pragmatic, user-centered perspective on problem solving. A Hackbright fellow and Wellesley alum, she pairs formal training with continuous open-source practice. Colleagues would describe her as a detail-oriented engineer who quietly improves developer workflows and product ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Fellow, Fellow at Hackbright Academy
SIT Madagascar - Antananarivo
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Wellesley College
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca contributed to the JupyterLab project by implementing and refactoring features across the application. Their work included adding a new markdown reference feature, making the HTML sanitizer a plugin, and fixing the token for the sanitizer plugin. They also added commands for creating new file types, indicating a focus on enhancing the user interface and core functionality of the JupyterLab environment.
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Rebecca Ely - Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP