Rita Bennett-chew
Software Engineer
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRita Bennett-chew is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and frontend systems in Java, Go, and JavaScript frameworks. She has shipped production features for enterprise back-office software and designed full-stack DevOps tools—authoring a Go backend with ORM and an Angular dynamic form generator—demonstrating comfort across databases, telemetry ETL, and UI tooling. Rita has led small teams and coordinated client-facing work in diverse environments from nonprofits and legal offices to mid-size tech firms, bringing strong communication and process sensibilities to engineering. She’s contributed to language tooling efforts, including a DSL lexer/parser and an ANTLR-based AST rewrite to boost performance, showing a knack for language design and compiler-adjacent work. Based in Durham, NC, she balances disciplined engineering with creative pursuits—contra dancing, hammock lounging, and cake decorating—which fuel her collaborative, adaptive approach.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Paralegal Certification, Legal Assistant/Paralegal, Paralegal Certification, Legal Assistant/Paralegal at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillCertificate, Ruby on Rails, Certificate, Ruby on Rails at EpicodusBachelor’s Degree, Anthropology, Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, Anthropology, Economics at Tufts University
Github Skills (17)
sinatra6
logging5
in-progress5
dance4
rails-api4
activerecord4
backend3
ruby3
redux2
google-sign-in2
visualizer2
ruby-on-rails2
react2
music2
frontend2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ritabc/ultimate-go
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ritabc/journal-app-backend
Nov 2020 - Sep 2024
A backend API for the Journal Recorder app. Works with a React frontend which incorporates Google Sign In and JWT for Authorization
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
authorizationbackendfrontendgoogle-sign-injwt
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