Senior Engineering Manager & Engineering Area Lead
Senior Engineering Manager & Engineering Area Lead, Dropbox Spaces
Leading teams of web, desktop and server-side engineers applying machine learning in-product... more to develop impactful user experiences as Dropbox pivots from being a “File Sync & Share” company to defining a new “Smart Workspace” category.
- Led teams responsible for defining core organizational and navigation systems and functionality for a brand-new Dropbox product. Strong partnership with product & design leadership to drive scoping, and pushing to build iteratively delivering user value as quickly as possible.
- Oversaw roll-out of new SOA service delivering personalized feeds at scale to Dropbox web, desktop & mobile clients.
- Developed “Hack Sprints” model to unblock engineers and allow them to innovate quickly through internally-shipping prototype with reduced guidance from product & design counterparts.
Senior Engineering Manager, Dropbox Paper
Led product engineering teams for Dropbox Paper, a beautiful collaboration tool helping people communicate their most important ideas. https://dropbox.com/paper/
- Manager of managers for area with 18 full-stack & mobile engineers, spanning multiple teams, covering the entire surface area of the Dropbox Paper product.
- Led process improvements to refocus team on planning, shipping and tracking their successes. Heavy collaboration with Product and Design counterparts to remove roadblocks and build a goal-driven culture.
- Shepherded team through multiple company-wide and team-level re-orgs. Drove matching of engineers to teams and roles that would allow them to grow, while still focusing on key company goals.
## Company Leadership
- 2018–2020: Engineering Lead for IGNITE, Dropbox’s software engineering apprenticeship program to identify & coach software engineers from non-traditional backgrounds. In our first year, we hosted a cohort of 8 apprentices in our SF office, and I was responsible for the definition of the program, the interviewing & recruiting of apprentices, and designing checkpoints to track progress of apprentices & mentors. In 2019–2020, I am now leading working groups of other managers & ICs to spread the responsibility, with a goal of hosting 22 apprentices across all three of Dropbox’s US engineering offices.
- 2017–2018: Co-DRI for Dropbox’s “Product Engineering Women” DEI working group
- 2016: Part of 5-person working group who wrote and tested new question set for Dropbox’s engineering behavioral interview, given to hundreds of engineering candidates every year. Solely responsible for developing and delivering training for interviewers on this new interview.
- Ongoing: Informal mentor for EMs & PMs across organization
Leading teams of web, desktop and server-side engineers applying machine learning in-product... more to develop impactful user experiences as Dropbox pivots from being a “File Sync & Share” company to defining a new “Smart Workspace” category.
- Led teams responsible for defining core organizational and navigation systems and functionality for a brand-new Dropbox product. Strong partnership with product & design leadership to drive scoping, and pushing to build iteratively delivering user value as quickly as possible.
- Oversaw roll-out of new SOA service delivering personalized feeds at scale to Dropbox web, desktop & mobile clients.
- Developed “Hack Sprints” model to unblock engineers and allow them to innovate quickly through internally-shipping prototype with reduced guidance from product & design counterparts.
Senior Engineering Manager, Dropbox Paper
Led product engineering teams for Dropbox Paper, a beautiful collaboration tool helping people communicate their most important ideas. https://dropbox.com/paper/
- Manager of managers for area with 18 full-stack & mobile engineers, spanning multiple teams, covering the entire surface area of the Dropbox Paper product.
- Led process improvements to refocus team on planning, shipping and tracking their successes. Heavy collaboration with Product and Design counterparts to remove roadblocks and build a goal-driven culture.
- Shepherded team through multiple company-wide and team-level re-orgs. Drove matching of engineers to teams and roles that would allow them to grow, while still focusing on key company goals.
## Company Leadership
- 2018–2020: Engineering Lead for IGNITE, Dropbox’s software engineering apprenticeship program to identify & coach software engineers from non-traditional backgrounds. In our first year, we hosted a cohort of 8 apprentices in our SF office, and I was responsible for the definition of the program, the interviewing & recruiting of apprentices, and designing checkpoints to track progress of apprentices & mentors. In 2019–2020, I am now leading working groups of other managers & ICs to spread the responsibility, with a goal of hosting 22 apprentices across all three of Dropbox’s US engineering offices.
- 2017–2018: Co-DRI for Dropbox’s “Product Engineering Women” DEI working group
- 2016: Part of 5-person working group who wrote and tested new question set for Dropbox’s engineering behavioral interview, given to hundreds of engineering candidates every year. Solely responsible for developing and delivering training for interviewers on this new interview.
- Ongoing: Informal mentor for EMs & PMs across organization
