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NVIDIAPosting location: Santa Clara, California and 1 other location · United StatesIndependent fictional example, not company material.

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Rachel Ford

Senior Developer Relations Engineer · Santa Clara, California · United States

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.

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NVIDIA

Developer Advocate – Reinforcement Learning

Santa Clara, California and 1 other location · United StatesSenior

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  • In the posting
      • blogs
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Create impactful and relevant content (e.g., demos, blogs, presentations, videos, etc.) and engage with developers, researchers, and students at events online or in person.”

    In this resume
    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.
    Senior Developer Relations Engineer · NVIDIA
  • In the posting
      • forums
      • Discord
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Actively participate on public-facing NVIDIA channels, including forums, Discord, and social media, helping developers understand our demos and encouraging them to build their own applications.”

    In this resume
    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.
    Senior Developer Relations Engineer · NVIDIA
  • In the posting
      • PyTorch
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Strong programming skills with the ability to develop easy-to-understand examples on training pipeline using AI frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, and NeMo-RL”

    In this resume
    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.
    Senior Developer Relations Engineer · NVIDIA
  • In the posting
      • demos
      • Reinforcement learning
      • communication
      • software architecture
      • system design
      No relevant experience found

    “Create impactful and relevant content (e.g., demos, blogs, presentations, videos, etc.) and engage with developers, researchers, and students at events online or in person.”

    “Ability to design and implement Reinforcement learning and post-training pipelines for LLM to improve model reasoning, safety, and instruction-following capabilities.”

    “World-class communication and presentation skills with a proven track record of articulating the value proposition of an emerging technology.”

    “In-depth knowledge of software architecture, system design, and application development.”

    In this resume

    No supporting experience found. Do not add this keyword unless your own work supports it.

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  • In the posting
      • JAX
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Strong programming skills with the ability to develop easy-to-understand examples on training pipeline using AI frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, and NeMo-RL”

    In this resume
    Owned a reinforcement-learning demo using PyTorch and JAX baselines, resolved inconsistent training seeds and completed a reproducible developer setup guide.
    Senior Developer Relations Engineer · NVIDIA
  • In the posting
      • community
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Collaborate with the product marketing team to launch emerging technology, write code, and share it with the community to inspire developers.”

    In this resume
    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.
    Senior Developer Relations Engineer · NVIDIA
  • In the posting
      • developers
      ATS keywords with experience

    “Collaborate with the product marketing team to launch emerging technology, write code, and share it with the community to inspire developers.”

    In this resume
    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.
    Senior Developer Relations Engineer · NVIDIA
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