Rainier Ababao

🌧 Rainier Ababaolast updated: 10/29/21

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My name is Rainier, like the American Adjunct Lager beer.⟲ click

I grew up near Austin and am currently based in San Francisco. I like to spend most of my time actively creating things (code or prose) or joking around with friends. I appreciate curious people who don't take themselves too seriously.

I also like running outside, trivia, and light board games. I have made a Spotify playlist for every month for the past 99 months. It turns out to be a fantastic log and memory index for major life events (e.g., places traveled and relationships) and life modes (e.g., coding to deep house and shoegaze all day every day).

Previously

💼 Jan 2021—Oct 2021 · San Francisco
Software Engineer ⟩ ⛵️
Founding engineer · C++ · The trash · LaCroix · Comments that start with "// TODO RA"
💼 Oct 2019—Dec 2020 · San Francisco
Software Engineer ⟩ Google | Looker
Acquired by Google in March 2020. Built new products to deliver data where knowledge workers spend the most time outside of Looker, including Slack.
💼 Aug 2018—Oct 2019 · San Francisco
Software Engineer ⟩ Domino Data Lab
Built tools for data science model management in Scala, TypeScript (React), and Kubernetes. Led the engineer onboarding program and trained an intern as the first new grad engineer hire.
🎓 Aug 2013—May 2016, Jan 2017—July 2018 · Austin
B.S. Comp Sci ⟩ The University of Texas at Austin
Biology minor. Organized bar tabs and barge parties for the local co-ed tech frat. Learned how to code in school and went to 13 hackathons. Built Convergent (see next).
🚀 Jan 2017—May 2018 · Austin
Founding Director ⟩ Texas Convergent
Launched a product development org that encourages project-based learning between computer science and business students (think: design sprint + hackathon + case comp over a semester). Wrote the curriculum consumed by over 130 students, led a team of 16 tech + business leads who gave lectures in addition to giving my own. Scaled the org by finding our product-market fit for 60%/40% CS/non-CS members and improving our processes on a weekly basis.
💼 Jun 2017—Aug 2017 · San Mateo
Software Engineer Intern ⟩ Medallia
Designed and wrote a topic clustering model service for customer experience survey corpora.
💼 Sep 2016—Dec 2016 · London
Software Engineer Intern ⟩ Desktop Genetics
Worked on a shopping cart, among other things, for an AI platform for CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing.
💼 May 2016—Aug 2016 · Sunnyvale
Software Engineer Intern ⟩ Clover
Wrote server infrastructure Python and Go code for point-of-sales device metrics.
💼 Jun 2015—Dec 2015 · Austin
Software Engineer Intern ⟩ Bold Metrics
Full-stack Python and ML model drift regression testing for human body measurement prediction.

In a past life

🦕 Before computers(cience) · Austin
Aptamer lab researcher. Made sure the Tuesday edition of The Daily Texan avoided alternative facts and conformed to the AP Stylebook. Called parents of incoming freshmen at UT and entered data into Microsoft Excel. Taught high schoolers at debate camp following my nationally competitive run in high school. Took AP Calculus BC as a 9th grader (definitely my peak).