Rachel Healey
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Toptal member since April 2, 2020
Rachel is a skilled full-stack developer with over ten years of experience that has seen her deliver projects built with React, Node.js, Docker, Angular, GraphQL, WordPress, Shopify, and CraftCMS. She has worked in large development teams and worked alone. In any case, she is passionate about writing consistent, efficient, top quality code.
Portfolio
Experience
- WordPress - 10 years
- Sass - 6 years
- React - 5 years
- Node.js - 5 years
- Next.js - 3 years
- Firebase - 3 years
- Docker - 2 years
- GraphQL - 2 years
Work Experience
Freelance Developer
Freelance
- Built custom WordPress and Shopify themes from scratch for multiple brands.
- Debugged, maintained, and enhanced existing websites.
- Implemented SEO, Google Analytics, site maps, metadata, etc.
Full-stack developer
Factor5 Software
- Developed a curriculum management app that is used by course creators and students in universities across Australia and the UK.
- Overhauled the development environment using Docker to help with onboarding issues and slow set up time.
- Refactored legacy components using a React component library to enhance maintainability and consistency across all products.
- Applied theme styling to products to see one code base used by multiple clients.
Senior Developer
Inlight Media
- Worked on a React application for a large Australian shopping center with an API server to be integrated with other centers of the same company.
- Wrote development workflows and processes and coached junior developers to help ensure consistent and maintainable code.
- Tested and debugged projects using Github bug trackers and ClickUp task tracker.
- Worked closely with designers to create consistent style systems across projects.
- Worked in agile project teams and assisted with planning and showcasing project tasks.
Project History
WordPress Theme for Factor5 Software
http://www.courseloop.comI used Sass in the WordPress theme to build out the brand styling and compiled the project using Gulp.
Shopify Theme for Somebuddy Loves You
I worked closely with a designer to build out this theme and enable as much dashboard configuration as possible. I also helped with the migration of the products from the legacy site by building a custom Node.js application that uses the Shopify Rest API.
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, iOS Extensions, Shopify API
Languages
Sass, CSS, GraphQL
Platforms
WordPress, Firebase, Docker, Shopify, DotCMS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Craft CMS
Frameworks
React Native, Next.js, NestJS, Angular, Jest, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Flutter
Storage
PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Other
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