# Bennett Rahn > Freelance Plus Size Outdoor Athlete and Model, Climbing Guide and Skiing Instructor. Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/bennettrahn Plus size outdoor athlete, model and gear consultant, rock climbing instructor, influencer, and outdoor inclusion advocate. Previously a software engineer and a middle school humanities teacher. ## Work Experience ### Freelance @ Unknown Jan 2022 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Flexe Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Slalom Build Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States Continued working with clients to provide software needs, but now with more direct client interaction and team mentorship. - Attended design meetings, gathered requirements, recommended and proof-of-concepted potential solutions for client needs. - Wrote tickets and worked with my team's developers to ensure work was understood and executed to a high standard. Reviewed, instructed, and coached developers on best coding practices and serverless architecture. - Coached and maintained open communication on a team that had severe miscommunication issues, reducing wasted time in meetings, improving team efficiency by a great deal, and lessening frustration and interpersonal stress between my team and the client. Additionally I acted in several internal roles related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. - I co-led the local Women Who Build affinity group which formally included organizing and hosting ~10 meetups a year. More informally I mentored, met, and encouraged new engineers and interns, as well as spoke to and organized with other leaders in the DEI space. - I was Diversity Champion for my location, which meant attending and keeping track of all affinity space activities and events, communicating with upper level leadership about any issues in our location, and occasionally helping organize activities and events. ### Software Engineer @ Slalom Build Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area Worked on teams to support clients in various industries to provide the software their businesses needed to succeed. Some examples of work done: - Worked side-by-side with client developers to teach best practice Agile development in an AWS serverless environment. - Developed several large components of a complex, fully serverless AWS application in a Continuous Delivery environment. This included writing test cases on many levels of complexity to ensure minimal downtime in the production environment. - Documented and taught client developers how to use and extend the code we wrote, as well as helping with debugging and SRE in the early handoff stages ### Software Engineer @ Hestan Smart Cooking Inc Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area - Maintained an existing AngularJS web app that allowed chefs to create and edit recipes for the mobile app, including using root cause analysis to address a serious performance issue, improving page load time from minutes down to seconds. Expanded that app to include new features to allow for expansion into oven recipes and more refined measuring systems. - Designed and implemented services and APIs using AWS cloud computing resources, for a variety of applications including translation and user data storage. - Advocated for and maintained documentation for new projects and legacy systems to improve future onboarding and communication. - Migrated legacy systems over to be encrypted-at-rest in compliance with GDPR as part of the company-wide internationalization project. ### Software Development Intern @ Hestan Smart Cooking Inc Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area As a member of the backend team to a young, agile IoT company I have worked both on a contained intern project as well as on more integrated tickets. - Redesigned and reimplemented the existing internal system of uploading and updating device firmware to streamline the process of testing and development for the firmware team. - Experimented with serverless tech like Api Gateway and helped evaluate and design a shift from the older, Thrift-based service system to a newer, more powerful and scalable cloud-based system. - Redesigned and adapted the existing data warehouse structure to collect more relevant data as the product evolves to help our marketing and design team better understand use patterns. ### Student @ Ada Developers Academy Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area Ada is a tuition-free coding bootcamp for women and gender diverse people to learn full-stack web development. It includes a 6 month in-class portion and a 5 month internship opportunity with a local sponsoring company. The in class intensive covers object-oriented programming and design through Ruby and Ruby on Rails, front-end development with Javascript and HTML/CSS, as well as CS fundamentals with data structures and white-boarding. Some key projects include a two-week, large group build of an online marketplace from scratch and a month-long independent capstone, for which I create a React Native iOS app. ### Social Studies Teacher @ Billings Middle School Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area My role at Billings developed over time and involved many different roles, which necessitated intellectual flexibility, and dedication. - As a teacher of many subjects, I planned lessons, graded homework, and endeavored to inspire even the most reticent participants with creative and differentiated assignments. - As an advisor I monitored the academic, emotional, and behavioral well being of 8 advisees, including parent-teacher communication, discipline, check-ins, and general coaching. - Additionally I helped plan outdoor experiences from snowshoeing to 5 day backpacking trips, coordinated substitutes for absent teachers, worked the front desk, and fulfilled a myriad of other small, but important roles. ### Lifeguard @ Seattle Public Schools Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area ### Substitute Teacher @ Billings Middle School Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area ### Daycare Teacher @ Green Lake School Age Care Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Comparative History of Ideas University of Washington Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 ### Ada Developers Academy Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bennett-rahn-0b603b147 - Website: https://bennettrahnart.weebly.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/bennettrahn JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/bennettrahn/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22