Rhea Parekh
Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRhea Parekh is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building distributed systems and infrastructure, currently working on storage nodes at Meta after shaping Linux infrastructure for Microsoft's CDN and Azure Front Door. She has a strong backend focus with notable open-source contributions to Zulip—improving Slack/Gitter import tooling, message processing, and API integrations—which powered a highlighted release of the project. Rhea brings a research-minded approach from quantum computing internships and mentorships, including building a quantum interconnect simulator and algorithms for quantum game theory. Comfortable across large-scale production systems and rigorous research, she blends practical engineering with a knack for refactoring and improving developer-facing import and integration workflows.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeePace Jr. Science CollegeFatima High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (13)
json10
zulip10
slack-api10
api10
slack-integration10
python10
api-design9
integrations9
apidoc9
data-import9
apim9
type-annotations9
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/python-zulip-api
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Python library for the Zulip API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 9 PRs, 26 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Rhea focused on enhancing the functionality of the Zulip API integration for Slack. They primarily refactored the code related to the Slack integration, removing and fixing mappings, and adding recipient and subscription mappings for private messages. They also worked on sanitizing message text and fixing type annotations to improve code quality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user added features for handling user mentions and mapping flags within the system.
python-libraryapipythonpypizulip
zulip/zulip
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Gitter Integration Specialist
Back-end Developer & Gitter Integration SpecialistContributions:238 commits, 91 PRs, 335 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rhea primarily focused on enhancing the Slack import functionality within the Zulip project. Their work involved adding features for importing user avatars, handling user mentions, and supporting custom emojis. They also made several improvements to the message processing logic to streamline the import process. The user also refactored parts of the import script and added support for the /settings command.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
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