Abigail Russell is a Senior Product Manager with a decade of experience building data infrastructure and real-time systems, currently leading product at Databricks after steering migrations and change data capture at Cockroach Labs. She blends a strong technical foundation from MIT and hands-on engineering experience at Google and The New York Times with product leadership that spans developer-facing database features and CDC pipelines. Abigail is known for translating complex distributed systems problems into practical product roadmaps, and for communicating them publicly through talks and technical blog posts. Her background as a software engineer and prior McKinsey consulting experience gives her a rare combination of technical depth, customer empathy, and strategic rigor. Colleagues rely on her to bridge engineering, go-to-market, and developer communities when shipping platform-level capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Abigail Russell - Senior Product Manager at Databricks