Rachel Sheikh
Principal Software Engineer at Onramp
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRachel Sheikh is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating compute platforms, scalable Go microservices, and video/media tooling across startups and large enterprises. Currently leading backend engineering at Dora and mentoring engineers at Onramp and interviewing.io, she blends hands-on system design with organizational scaling and teaching. Her background includes driving a 50% DAU increase for Twitter Spaces via global ranking heuristics and WebRTC orchestration, and migrating core APIs to Go to reduce AWS costs at State Farm. Equally comfortable in distributed systems, GraphQL aggregation layers, and event-sourced architectures, she cares about developer productivity and safety tooling. Based in Seattle, she’s a big fan of Go and distributed systems—and is known for turning complex media and platform requirements into pragmatic, production-ready services.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Psychology at Old Dominion UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at George Mason University
English
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Github Skills (48)
docker10
health10
continuous-testing10
synthetic10
continuous-delivery10
cicd10
operator10
continuous-deployment9
monitoring9
kubernetes9
continuous-integration9
kustomize9
cd9
jsonnet9
devops9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sheikhrachel/Coldstart
Feb 2020 - Sep 2024
Automated rapid project bootstrapping with multi-language support and environment setup
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
bootstrappingmulti-language-supportmulti-languageenvironment-setupproject-bootstrapping
sheikhrachel/sheikhrachel.github.io
Sep 2017 - Jan 2026
Contributions:164 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
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