Rafia Qutab Kilian is a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Electrical Engineering and began her journey into the software world after an internship at Microsoft. She has over a decade of software engineering experience and has lead development teams at startups and now at NASA JPL. She enjoys strategic problem-solving, building diverse teams, and writing well-tested, clean code. She enjoys camping, exploring local coffee shops, and traveling the world with her partner and pup in her free time.