# Rachel Spies

> Senior Software Engineer at GitHub

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ GitHub
Jan 2020 – Present | San Carlos, California, United States
* Working on Copilot, in Ruby, Typescript and Go
* Worked on a 3-person team to improve slow query performance, sped up performance by up to 70%.
* Lead work to ship GitHub’s Private Profiles feature. Worked alongside privacy and legal teams, to define a clear scope from a complex set of requirements. 
* Focused on improving the experiences of large maintainers by performing both qualitative and quantitive research in the form of conducting a user research study and making sense of large datasets.

### Software Developer @ thoughtbot
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | 41 Winter St
* Worked alongside existing development teams, to help ship new features, build more scalable software and improve software development practices.
* Managed a small team, mentoring individuals, and finding them growth opportunities.
* Helped startups ship their first MVPs

### Software Developer @ Intrepid Pursuits, LLC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA

### Software Engineer @ clypd, inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Boston
•	Automated clypd’s UI testing environment to run on Jenkins development servers.
•	Standardized and automated testing procedures across company’s UI services.
•	Used Rails to access information from TV database and display within clypd’s UI framework.
•	Seventh member of the start-up engineering team


## Education
### B.S. in in Computer Software Engineering
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rachel-spies-4b649662

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Last updated: 2026-03-22