Rachel Hansen

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Backend Engineer, Zoom - PostgreSQL · Java · distributed systems

Zoom
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
1+ years experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
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Overview

Currently at Zoom, where I work on payments infrastructure. Moved 93% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with Go and gRPC. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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PostgreSQLJavagRPCPCI DSSdistributed systemsKafkaGo

Experience

  1. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Zoom · 1 yr · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Took payment success rates from 91.8% to 98.2%.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 3.
    • Wrote the distributed systems service that now handles 25 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    BS, Mathematics
    2021 - 2025

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