# Rebecca Schell

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rebeccaschell

Software Engineer experienced in Javascript, React, and Node/Express, with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Passionate about bringing inclusivity and accessibility to the engineering industry to ensure female and minority voices are heard.

Recent talks include CSS Libraries & Frameworks from the Single Sprout Software Engineering Speaking Series.  

If you have any questions, contributions, or just want to chat, feel free to reach out to me here or on my GitHub, github.com/rschelly

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Rent The Runway
Jan 2022 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States
⇒ Spearheaded the integration of OpenAI with Elasticsearch for our AI Search Beta release in a cross team collaboration between machine learning and discovery, devising and executing a comprehensive test strategy plan focused on search accuracy validation through API testing and JSON diff comparison.
⇒ Introduced Splunk Synthetic Monitoring for robust, real-time production browser testing and alerting, including production checkout with failsafe methods and test inventory to ensure moment to moment site reliability and functionality on critical user journeys 
⇒ Developed UI tests and End-to-End (E2E) tests in Cypress, API tests in Jest and TypeScript, and Acceptance tests in Gherkin within an agile environment, making use of pair/mob programming sessions and group whiteboarding to facilitate team discussions and uphold the health and quality of new projects 
⇒ Collaborated closely as an Integrated QE across multiple teams, bridging the gap between Product and Engineering to outline and deliver on  test strategy plans, ensuring comprehensive automation and UI/UX test coverage for new features, along with manual X-Ray coverage for rapid production of high-quality, bug-free features
⇒ Provided peer code review and offered engineer mentorship as a Quality Engineering Automation Lead and code owner of testing and storefront repositories, emphasizing best practices, quality, maintainability, and scalability

### EcoMotion | Software Engineer @ Open Source
Jan 2021 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
⇒ Implemented React to modularize our application for future scalability and separation of presentational and stateful components for declarative and easy to navigate component mapping for a comfortable user experience that is extremely developer friendly. 
⇒ Used React Hooks to construct intuitive components based on related logic rather than by lifecycle methods to ensure efficiency in state management.
⇒ Integrated TDD with Jest and Enzyme for specific concurrent JS snapshot middleware testing, ensuring that React components were well structured and functioning, helping to avoid unwanted side-effects and unintended consequences of new feature developments.
⇒ Applied OAuth for user authorization through Facebook and Google for a diversified user login experience, incorporating Passport.js middleware in tandem with Express.js and persistent cookies for additional auth services.

### BetterReads | Software Engineer @ Open Source
Jan 2021 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
⇒ Implemented React Router to ensure flexible and swift page loading by only rendering specific components controlled by user access.  
⇒ Architected a relational database to store user data, with an emphasis on ACID compliance at an application level, as well as individual session data for each user, organizing scalable many-to-many relationships between tables while minimizing potential bugs with a strictly-enforced schema.
⇒ Incorporated Axios library, establishing wide browser support and fast, efficient promise-based fetches on the front end, as well as control over asynchronous calls on the backend. 
⇒ Established Node.js/Express server to seamlessly handle HTTP requests and API calls, applying the middleware design pattern to modularize routers and controllers with a discernible chain of responsibility. 
⇒ Prioritized user security by incorporating Bcrypt technology, including salt methods for encryption of sensitive account information.

### Technical Interview Jeopardy Gold+ Edition | Software Engineer @ Open Source
Jan 2021 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
⇒ Utilized React and CSS to create a dynamic, cohesive experience with rapid component rendering based on user input with bold, responsive visuals.
⇒ Configured a relational database to execute performant, complex queries while maintaining ACID compliance and atomicity of data for future scalability 
⇒ Leveraged Node.js/Express’ single threaded event loop to facilitate the chaining of modularized middleware controller functions to handle responses and requests made from the client through HTTP endpoints to effectively execute queries to a relational database.
⇒ Implemented a Websockets protocol to establish persistent cross-server connections and event driven updates and communication between users to allow for real-time, synchronous gameplay updates between different users.

### Software Engineer @ Codesmith
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
⇒Developed and assisted in the perpetuation and upkeep of the Codesmith public site and its associated online platforms for learning, CSX

⇒Maintained a custom YAML content parser to add static content into React components for a public site with over 150,000 annual users with utmost user accessibility in mind, so that even non-technical staff members could add content to the site without training.

⇒Orchestrated junior engineer onboarding and provided mentorship with code review and pair programming through the complete SDLC of fullstack applications using Agile/SCRUM methodology, with special focus on Javascript fundamentals, React, DOM Manipulation, UX Design, and Systems Design

⇒Proctored Technical Interviews for prospective junior engineers with an emphasis on Javascript, technical communication, and debugging abilities

### Software Engineer @ ShipShape
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
⇒ Leveraged React’s virtual DOM and reusable components for modularity and maintainability, improving interactivity with dynamic rendering while implementing various 3rd party tools/libraries to aid in the development process, with a focus on Atomic Design.
⇒ Employed React Router to increase loading speed and performance in a single-page environment by minimizing server requests to improve browsing speed and to allow for declarative component composition.
⇒ Utilized React Hooks for efficient use of React’s native life-cycle features and for storing logical state updates in customized hooks, producing a consistent functional component structure that introduced reusability in stateful behavior between components, resulting in readable, testable code. 
⇒ Re-engineered Chart.js components for wide browser compatibility and versatile accessibility features to responsively display customized metrics information from a Kubernetes cluster in a clear, meaningful, and easily digestible visual format with an emphasis on best UX practices.
⇒ Incorporated the Sass preprocessing scripting language for dynamic styling and improved developer experience, ensuring fluid organization and maintenance of stylesheets with clearly nested variables and fluid color palette assignment.
⇒ Structured the React Material-UI framework to facilitate the development of styled, responsive, and customizable tables with filtering and searching capabilities. 
⇒ Applied CSS3 Flexbox and Grid to optimize dynamic content for various screen sizes, logically modularizing styles across multiple components.
⇒ Built Webpack customized for future scalability, maintainability and faster load times, employing hot module reloading, ES6+ transpilation for developer packages, and using minification and uglification features to decrease bundled file size in production.
⇒ Product developed under tech accelerator OS Labs (opensourcelabs.io).


## Education
### Bachelor's degree
Hunter College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rschelly

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Last updated: 2026-04-13