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Louise Zylina Racette

(She/Her)

Full-Stack Developer/DevOps/Team Lead

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About Me

Hi! I'm a Full-Stack Software Developer based out of Portland, Oregon. I've spent most of my career working with nonprofits/social enterprises, including 5 years living in Sub-Saharan Africa. My special interests include coding, travel, linguistics, hiking/biking/camping, the history of feminism, buddhism and queer community building. These are some data visualizations I made about my life/skills!

Squooshy Skills Graph!

Humble-Brag Chart!

Chart That Looks Like a Classic Rock Album Cover!

Work Experience

Engineering Lead - TaroWorks, LLC (November 2022 - Present)

Remote (Portland, OR)

  • Engineering Lead for a B2B Social Enterprise
  • Built, Deployed and Improved SalesForce-backed offline app building tools to global nonprofits.
  • Managed a team of 4 remote Salesforce/Android developers
  • Obtained Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification.

DBA/DevOps Team Lead - One Acre Fund (January 2017 - October 2022)

Bungoma, Kenya ⇒ Jinja, Uganda ⇒ Kigali, Rwanda

  • Hired and led a team of 4 remote DevOps Engineers
  • Successfully replaced MS Access-based CRM with cloud/mobile solution
  • Scaled SMS/USSD/Payment Processing APIs to over a million farming families
  • Coordinated simultaneous IT upgrade across 9 countries.
  • Migrated organization from Legacy Stack (MSSQL, C#/ASP.NET, Jenkins, Katalon, Octopus Deploy)to (Modernized Stack) Docker, Kubernetes/Helm, Terraform, Node.JS, CouchBase, ElasticSearch and Azure DevOps/Azure Hosting.
  • I wrote about some of my experiences here!

Web Developer - Adpearance, Inc (February 2016 - September 2016)

Portland, OR

  • Individual Contributor working in JavaScript, Java, MySQL, AWS and Selenium
  • Wrote automation framework for QA frontend testing

Biomedical Software Developer - NIVasc, Inc. (April 2014 - September 2015)

Portland, OR

  • Sole software engineer at a biomedical startup.
  • Gained experience in Android Development, SQLite, Embedded C (PIC Microcontrollers), design for hardware mass production, FDA regulatory requirements
  • Conducted biomedical prototype field testing and data analysis in hospital environments.

Product Supply Intern - Procter & Gamble (February 2012 - September 2013)

Cincinnati, OH

  • Gained experience in ASP.NET, VBA, MySQL
  • Deployed Data Visualization Software to an active production line