# Rachel Friedman

> Software Engineer & Content Creator

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rachelfriedman

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineer on the Grasshopper team: https://grasshopper.codes/. Grasshopper is an app that teaches adult beginners how to code in a fun and easily digestible way. I was primarily front-end focused and worked on both the web and mobile applications (mainly in React and React Native).

Previously:
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019: Software Engineer on the Material Design Web team.
Aug 2015 - Jan 2018: Software Engineer on the Google Keep Web team.

### Head Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Hamilton College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Clinton, NY
- Managing a team of ~20 teaching assistants
- Responsible for coordinating CS departmental events

### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Hamilton College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Clinton, NY
- Assist students during class with programming assignments completed in Python and C++ and host weekly open lab hours
- Grade lab assignments on a biweekly basis

### Research Assistant @ Hamilton College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Clinton, NY
- Conducted research involving applying linguistic analysis to social networking data
- Developed an application written in Python using the Facebook Graph API to extract relevant information from user profiles
- Applied machine learning techniques to predict which users would be likely to exhibit certain real life dispositions based on an analysis of their Facebook data
- Resulting paper accepted for presentation at HCI International 2014 and published by Springer International

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cisco
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Jose
- Developed an experimental PTZ camera head tracking virtual reality prototype using the Oculus Rift
- Worked with a team on a transportation Android application for the Cisco bus system
- Migrated a Jenkins instance to a new server and updated and maintained jobs
- Created a CLI help option HTML documentation generator using Python

### Office Assistant @ Racing City Realty
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Saratoga Springs, NY
- Answered phone calls, maintained databases, responded to email inquiries
- Recorded lease requests and supervised lease signings


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Hamilton College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### High School
Saratoga Springs
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rachel-friedman-83b7816a

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Source: https://flows.cv/rachelfriedman
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rachelfriedman/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22