About Rachel

I’m a Ruby on Rails and Front-end developer who focuses on Usability, User Experience and User Testing. If you are looking for a creative individual to push your project to a higher standard, I am your lady. I have experience in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CSS (Sass and Compass), and JavaScript (jQuery, Backbone, CoffeeScript and Handlebars.js).

I am based in New York City and completed a  five-year program at Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science, where I graduated in 2008 with a dual degree in Computer Science & Cognitive Psychology. Remember kids, every time you write code without tests, Matthias Felleisen kills a kitten!

I like a lot of different music and will talk about it incessantly if someone doesn’t interrupt me. I post random reviews about albums and concerts that I’ve been to lately. Living/working in New York City really makes it easy to see some awesome new music!

I write a lot about “interesting” details of my life or what I’m currently working on and like to post pictures of my Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Isabella doing weird/funny/dog things.

I also like to take adventures and am passionate about driving around with my husband and Isabella in my 2007 Honda Fit to visit friends and family around the East Coast.

I won’t shut up on Twitter (@rachelober) because I am much more proficient at stream-of-consciousness micro-blogging rather than long-winded posts, so feel free to message me there. You can also take a look at my Tumblr that houses richer texts that are too long for Twitter but not long enough to validate a full post here on my blog.

I also post public projects to my GitHub account that I do in my free time or as open-sourced projects from my job.

I am currently accepting short-term contracts, if you are interested please contact me via the contact form on this website.