Aileen Kriel is an engineering manager based in Palo Alto with 11 years in leadership roles and a two-decade software career spanning finance to hyperscale tech. She has led teams at Meta and AWS after directing engineering at Symphony and senior engineering leadership at Goldman Sachs, bringing deep expertise in building large-scale streaming and production systems. Comfortable both managing cross-functional programs and rolling up her sleeves on architecture, she excels at scaling teams and systems through rapid growth phases. Her background in computational finance (Carnegie Mellon) and dual CS degrees underpin a strong quantitative approach to reliability and performance. Colleagues often note her ability to translate complex technical constraints into pragmatic roadmaps that align with business priorities.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Queens College
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Pace University
Master's degree, Computational Finance, Master's degree, Computational Finance at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
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