Summary
Tehya Rassman is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of full-stack experience building React/Redux frontends and Express/SQL backends, currently shaping product at Spec in the Greater Chicago area. She mentors and interviews engineers, led workshops on React/Redux Hooks, and previously guided Codesmith students through SCRUM, GraphQL, Node.js and Electron projects. An active open-source contributor, she recently contributed a Svelte IDE called sVelocity and has built multiple OSS apps that showcase secure JWT auth and scalable state management with hooks. Her background in journalism informs clear technical communication and effective developer coaching, combining hands-on implementation with a knack for teaching and developer experience.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Journalism, Bachelor's degree, Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin