Hi 👋🏼 I'm Rach. A 40 year old Software Engineer, wife, mother of two, neurodivergent, productivity nerd and recovering screen addict.
I grew up in a small coastal town in Queensland, Australia. I was obsessed with computers as a kid and the internet as a teen, and knew I wanted to do something with coding as an adult.
It took me a while to land on a career and after a few detours I finally discovered front end development as a profession. I spent the first years of my career working in different digital and advertising agencies in Australia and London until I landed a dream job with Active Theory in Venice, California.
I lived and worked in LA for a few years until I was offered a job with CodePen, and I've been with them ever since. I do front end and backend work now, I specialise in the communication between the two, designing and implementing most of our internal APIs.
I've moved back to Australia now, where I live with my husband Andy, and two Primary Schoolers. Outside of looking after the kids and work I don't have too much time for hobbies, so writing on this site is an attempt to make time for myself and my interests. I do better at it some times than others.