# Rebecca Townsend

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Amazon Ads Developer, first in Amazon Publisher Services and then in Demand Services
• Developed Sponsored Products ad creatives using LitElement
• Documented LitElement UI components library, including carousel and expansion panel, with Storybook
• Built React + TypeScript web app for publishers to preview and configure custom ad styles across domains and urls
• Enabled first-party signals targeting on Amazon Publisher Direct Deals UI using open source React Query Builder and Redux
• Researched end-to-end test framework migration by implementing first Playwright web and mobile tests and accessibility audits
• Created Node.js + TypeScript API to execute AWS commands with 95% unit test code coverage

### Senior Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Fullstack developer on call-monitoring platform supporting 17.3M calls monthly
• Migrated agent-facing application from Angular to Vue.js
• Supported seven Node.js middleware apps to enable assessment of Amazon Connect call recordings

### Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Richmond, Virginia
• Back-end developer on case management platform servicing 7k agents and 7.3M transactions
• Utilized Kafka streams and REST APIs to manage the status of 2.7M claims
• Developed and supported three Java Spring Boot microservices to enable automatic claim resolution

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Brown University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Providence, Rhode Island
Teaching Assistant for CS1320 - Intro to Modern Web Apps

### Software Engineering Intern @ Viasat Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Carlsbad, California
• Created a spatial modeling web application with easy-to-generate flight statistics for business users
• Implemented PostgreSQL functions to manipulate geospatial data for Chart.js visualizations
• Developed workflows in Netflix's Conductor 
• Designed Vue.js components for running and viewing flight statistics

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Brown University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
Teaching assistant for CS0530 - The Matrix in Computer Science

### Capital One Software Engineering Summit @ Capital One
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Clarendon, Virginia
Selected to attend week-long educational summit on bot development, iOS MVC architecture, and Amazon Web Services that culminated in a hackathon where I made an Android app

### Software Development Intern @ EBSCO Information Services
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Birmingham, Alabama Area
• Built successful proof-of-concept RESTful API to inform company shift to Microservice Architecture using Amazon Web Services, the Netflix Stack, and Spring Framework 
• Exposed to Agile framework, SQL databases, automated testing, and performance testing

### Target Women in Tech Symposium @ Target
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Minneapolis, MN
Selected to attend recruiting event designed to connect and empower female developers

### Private Tutor @ Self-Employed
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
Tutored high school students in Physics, Precalculus, AP Calculus BC, ACT, and SAT


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
Brown University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Hoover City Schools Seal of Scholastic Excellence
Hoover High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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