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Rachel Ford
Senior Developer Relations Engineer with experience in developer education, community, feedback, content, and product adoption. Practical work includes SDK sample applications, Developer onboarding, API troubleshooting, Technical demonstrations.
Experience
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, California · United States
Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, built an API sample for developers that covered authentication, pagination, and rate-limit recovery; tested it from a clean account so workshop participants could reproduce the result without hidden setup.
- With responsibility for the review standard, turned recurring community questions into developer content and reproducible issue reports; closed the feedback loop by linking a documentation fix or product decision back to the original discussion.
- Built a runnable sample from the public SDK, reproduced developer setup failures on a clean machine, and routed recurring documentation issues to the owning product team.
- Built a PyTorch training demo with a small public dataset, pinned the environment and GPU-memory settings, and wrote a companion blog explaining failed runs and evaluation limits so developers could reproduce the example.
- Reproduced questions from developer forums and Discord in an isolated sample, supplied a tested correction with version details, and linked unresolved API behavior to an issue that the product team could investigate.
- Owned a reinforcement-learning demo using PyTorch and JAX baselines, resolved inconsistent training seeds and completed a reproducible developer setup guide.
- Published technical blogs using questions from forums and Discord, reduced repeated setup requests by 22% in a monthly community sample and linked each answer to a runnable demo.
Datadog
New York · United States
Developer Relations Engineer
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Introduced sample-app CI across 9 SDK versions and environments; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, kept the improvement stable through the follow-up review.
- Reviewed a proposed change against the existing interface contract, reproduced a reviewer’s edge case, and added the missing test or example before merging the change.
- Investigated a failure reported by a downstream team using the exact version and input they supplied. Reduced it to a reproducible test, delivered the fix with compatibility notes, and confirmed the original case passed before closing the report.
Selected project
Developer Relations — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Categorized 310 community questions into product, docs, and education gaps; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Built an isolated fixture with normal, malformed and interrupted inputs; recorded the expected response before running the implementation so failures were distinguishable from a changed assumption.
- Packaged the reproduction steps, configuration and regression tests with the project; checked the instructions from a clean environment and documented the unsupported cases instead of claiming production readiness.
- Owned the independent regression fixture using isolated inputs, resolved a failing edge case and released a reproducible test package with expected outputs.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Computer Science
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks
Skills
Role expertise
SDK sample applications · Developer onboarding · API troubleshooting · Technical demonstrations
Publications
- Published an independent technical note using the project’s before-and-after traces, explaining the failed assumption, regression coverage and cases the implementation does not support.

