# Rebecca Shoptaw

> Software Engineer at the Internet Archive

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

Hello! My name is Rebecca and I'm a software engineer at the Internet Archive. I'm a big believer in:
✨ Clean, DRY code - easy to read, easy to update
🧩 Modularity - write it once, use it 800 times
✅ Maintainable code - no hacky workarounds, find a solution that makes sense and will last
✉️ Clear communication - the only way things get done

Primary tech stack: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
With React: Node.js, Next.js, Verce, Vite
Mobile: React Native, Swift
Testing & containerization: Jest, Docker
Version control: Git, GitHub, GitLab

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer, Core Site UX Team @ Internet Archive
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
• Created a much-requested new tool which enables the site’s 1M+ collection admins to generate fully-customized, responsive TypeScript page layouts from a single JSON object via a simple, intuitive form
• Transformed the workflow for displaying and editing reviews, replacing legacy PHP code with fully-tested TypeScript components and architecting 10+ desired new security and design features
• Designed and delivered a custom CMS to facilitate easy, risk-free edits for 14 highly-visible site pages
• Devised an efficient project management system to break down complex, ambiguous feature requests into a series of iterative phases, successfully closing more than 100 Jira tickets in the first 8 months
• Worked with an agile, 8-person team to optimize the user experience for the site’s 1.6M+ daily visitors

### Engineering Fellow & Frontend/Internationalization Lead, Open Library Team @ Internet Archive
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Shipped 50+ new features and fixes as an engineering fellow for a digital library with 30M+ monthly visitors, ensuring code quality and maintainability with thorough end-to-end testing, linting and documentation
• Delivered a modern and user-friendly new registration process for the Internet Archive’s Open Library site, executing a full page redesign and adding 9 new validation checks using JavaScript, HTML and Python
• Optimized the site’s internationalization process, reducing the delay for new text translation availability from up to 6 months to less than 5 minutes by building a Python-based automation tool
• Collaborated with a cross-functional team of 15 via weekly meetings, code review, frontend and backend architecture best practices, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows

### Software Engineer @ Freelance
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
• Increased responsiveness, performance and scalability by up to 80% by overhauling and redesigning client sites, transforming bare-bones HTML sites and simple single page profiles into feature-rich React sites
• Reduced new page build time by > 90% in a Next.js rebuild of a SquareSpace site by replacing 13 repetitive individually-generated pages with a simple, reusable React component
• Synthesized client site objectives and aesthetic vision into actionable plans for site architecture, code and design, maintaining a 24 hour turnaround time between initial meeting and delivery of full proposal


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Film and Media Studies
Yale University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rebeccashoptaw
- Portfolio: https://rebeccashoptaw.dev

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Last updated: 2026-04-13