✦ Product-minded engineer · Houston, TX

Coding is the easy part.

Five years as an engineer taught me that everything is buildable. Five years as a product manager taught me that the skill is knowing what to build. So I start every build with the same three questions: Who is it for? What's their problem? How can I help?

See the proof About me
Rachel Madrigal smiling in front of a pink circle
Selected work

Things I've shipped

Twingate · security startup

Billing overhaul that unlocked $100K+ ARR

Led the product-wide billing and pricing rebuild with the C-suite, sales, and 20+ engineers.

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Tackle.io · cloud marketplaces

A public API taken from idea to adoption

Owned Tackle's public API and webhooks from inception to market adoption, leading 5 engineers on versioning, architecture, and documentation.

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Camden · enterprise

The HR integration every new hire runs through

Designed and built the Taleo-to-Oracle integration, cutting manual work from hours to 10 minutes.

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Right now

What I'm building in public

This very website

My website changes when I do. That's my favorite part of it. This year's renovation? Returning to my engineering roots.
The build notes →

A Pilates business that runs on Obsidian

I teach Pilates (Peak certified) and run the whole business in Obsidian with Claude: client tracking, automated programming, and a content pipeline. I didn't change how I work. I just changed what I'm working on.

A YouTube channel about systems

Obsidian, personal knowledge management, and what happens when you treat your notes like a codebase.

A little about me

Pick one thing? No thanks.

I've been an engineer, a product manager, a business owner, and right now I'm back to building full time. The industries kept changing (oil and gas, real estate, cloud marketplaces, network security), but the job was always the same: understand the problem, build the system, ship it.

Off the clock I compete in West Coast Swing, lift heavy things on purpose, and keep an Obsidian vault that is honestly better organized than most codebases I've met.

Being a generalist is a skill. You just have to learn how to use it.

• west coast swing dancer • • powerlifter • • obsidian nerd • • pilates instructor • • youtuber • • half marathon runner •

Let's build something together

Hiring? Start with the good stuff. For everyone else, my inbox is friendly.

hey@rachelvmadrigal.com