# Rebekah R. > Staff Software Engineer Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rebekahr Full stack software engineer currently utilizing React, NextJS, and Graphql; prior experience with Java (Micronaut), MySQL, Angular, Mongo, Node, Express, and Redux. Comfortable with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Github, Jenkins, and Travis. Prior military experience with Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) clearance. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer (Team Lead) @ Thrivent Jan 2023 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer Team Lead @ Entegral Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 • Team Lead responsible for providing technical leadership for the Dispatch team (5 engineers) • Fullstack Java and Javascript/Typescript software engineer • Develop microservice Java REST APIs in Spring Boot and Micronaut, including clients, mocks, and tests • Publish and subscribe to/from data queues using RabbitMQ • Dependency injection using Guice and native Micronaut annotations • Develop front end Angular (8+) applications using common core library to produce highly customizable dynamic forms • Write tests using Protractor with Selenium control flow disabled to allow for async await functionality • Deploy using Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, and Kubernetes; no-downtime deploys • Agile scrum: daily standups, sprint planning, code review, retrospectives ### Software Engineer @ AkitaBox Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Madison, Wisconsin Area • Fullstack Javascript software engineer • Comfortable using callbacks, Promises, or Async Await to manage asynchronous code • Responsible for the development of key platform features, including front and back end development of Maintenance Types, Issue Types, and Trades; PlanView Refresh; Separating Pins into Rooms and Assets, and QR Codes • Engineered back end routes and controllers with REST APIs using Node, Express, Mongo, and Mongoose • Created front end application features using React, Redux, Angular, HTML, and SCSS • Wrote tests using Sinon, Mocha, Chai, and Jest • Deployed using Github, Travis CI, and AWS • Daily standups, sprint planning, code review, retrospectives ### Software Development Intern @ POPVOX Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Madison, Wisconsin • Contributed to the development of a web application built on Laravel and PHP that improves the ability of constituents to contact their elected officials and weigh in on pending bills. • Participated in weekly sprints to expand features and usability of the site, resulting in coordinated message delivery for all 100 U.S. Senators. ### Strategic Investment Analyst (Marine Corps) @ Camber Corporation Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Pentagon • Provided daily analytical support to a 2-star General, including formal and informal briefing and advising on a variety of topics including recent think tank publications, Joint Concepts such as AirSea Battle, and financial implications of sequestration. • Prepared and coordinated Marine Corps positions for the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review on a variety of high profile topics, including the Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific, F-35B, Amphibious Combat Vehicle, personnel end strength, budget shortfalls, and Ship-to-Shore Connectors. • Authored more than 10 speeches for senior military staff, including a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations that unveiled Marine Corps plans to reduce personnel to 175,000 Marines by Fiscal Year 2019 as a result of budget reductions and the drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan. • Co-authored “The Prime Force: Force Design in Fiscal Austerity,” a report that laid out the future force design for the Marine Corps. • Led the development of the inaugural Marine Corps Strategic Investment Plan (SIP), an enterprise document that resulted in significant changes to the Marine Corps ground combat tactical vehicle strategy, including the cancellation of the Marine Personnel Carrier program and major modifications to the Amphibious Combat Vehicle program. ### Irregular Warfare Senior Analyst (Joint Staff) @ General Dynamics IT Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Pentagon • Briefed Senior Joint Staff and Joint Forces Command leaders on capability gaps in Irregular Warfare and Urban Operations. • Determined materiel and nonmateriel capability requirements critical to national security for unconventional warfare, urban operations, security force assistance, foreign internal defense, civil affairs, and psychological operations. • Identified appropriate changes to doctrine, organizations, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy based on Joint analysis of Irregular Warfare gaps. • Analyzed current counterinsurgency programs of record and provided recommendations on areas for increased investment in Service budgets based on Quadrennial Defense Review guidance. ### Air and Missile Defense Analyst (Army) @ CAS, Inc. Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 • Nominated for an award from the Military Operational Research Society for leading a highly successful 2 year study to identify Army equipment losses during combat followed by quantitative analysis to forecast future loss rates, the methodology of which still forms the basis for annual Army requirements. • Led the Requirements Study Team (a Joint effort involving all Services, Combatant Commands, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense) for the Ballistic Missile Defense Review, a Congressionally mandated report, in order to determine if missile defense requirements were being adequately identified through the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS). • Mentored multiple young analysts by providing advice, guidance, and encouragement. Advocated for their abilities to senior co-workers and company management in order to facilitate additional roles and responsibilities, successfully obtaining a leadership role for at least one analyst as a direct result. ### Personnel Information Systems Management Specialist @ Army National Guard Jan 1997 – Jan 2005 | Madison, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. • Maintained digital records of personnel files in a large database. • Traveled throughout Wisconsin to update Servicemen records prior to deployment. • Taught classes for recently enlisted soldiers on basic military skills and strategy. ### Treaty Implementation and Compliance Defense Analyst (Office of the Secretary of Defense / Army) @ SAIC Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | Pentagon • Provided research and analysis on strategic and conventional treaty compliance and implementation, including missile defense, Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Chemical Weapons Convention, Biological Weapons Convention, landmines, cluster munitions, and explosive remnants of war. • Drafted Department of Defense policy for High Value Activity reporting for the Treaty on Open Skies, one of the most wide-ranging international efforts to date promoting openness and transparency of military forces and activities. • Participated in inter-agency meetings with the State Department to negotiate High Value Activity operating procedures that would satisfy legal obligations without compromising military activities. • Researched and presented results to the Missile Defense Agency on legalities associated with missile interceptors under the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. ### Intern @ U.S. Department of State Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 • Coordinated demarches for foreign companies whose activities violated international export control agreements (Wassenaar Arrangement and the Missile Technology Control Regime). • Drafted clear and concise press guidance on export control issues of media interest. ## Education ### Software Engineering Fullstack Academy ### M.A. in International Affairs - Security Policy The George Washington University ### B.A. in Political Science, International Relations University of Wisconsin-Madison ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rebekahrobinson3542 --- Source: https://flows.cv/rebekahr JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rebekahr/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12