Summary
Rhonda Smith is a customer-focused aspiring software engineer based in San Francisco, blending nine years of hands-on operations and client service experience with formal CS training through Microsoft LEAP, a coding bootcamp, and Oregon State University's postbacc program. She excels at logistics and curation—managing high-value shipping, designing custom framing, and launching a semiannual customer photography magazine that drew nearly 2,000 submissions across its first two issues. Her technical background includes full-stack web training (JavaScript, Node, React, SQL), a C# apprenticeship on Azure, and practical survey/statistics programming from her public policy work. A first-generation college graduate, she brings uncommon cross-disciplinary strengths: rigorous data cleanup and survey programming at scale, public policy analysis, and a keen visual sensibility from photography that informs user-centered product thinking. Outside tech she’s a baseball fan, avid reader, and self-described Thin Lizzy evangelist, signaling curiosity and cultural depth that she brings to collaborative teams.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, History & Government and Law, Bachelor's degree, History & Government and Law at Lafayette College
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Oregon State University
Master of Public Policy, Master of Public Policy at Goldman School of Public Policy