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Rachel Potvin

VP of Engineering, Data and Security Products at GitHub

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Rachel Potvin is a VP of Engineering, Data and Security Products at GitHub, where she oversees GitHub’s Analytics, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and Security Products groups.

Before GitHub, Rachel worked as Engineering Leader, Google Cloud at Google. Prior to Google, she spent six years in the video game industry, as she was working as Technical Team Lead at Ubisoft.

Rachel also has experience in the financial services sector as well, as she was a Management Consultant in Strategy and Operations at Deloitte.

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