Summary
Ajahne Santa Anna is a Director of Engineering based in the NYC metro area with nine years of leadership experience building engineering organizations and shipping scalable software in high-growth environments. She has a track record of scaling teams and processes at Dropbox—rising from Engineering Manager to Head of Core Growth—and now leads engineering at Federato. Her background spans hands-on software development, DevOps and CI/CD adoption, and strategic technology road-mapping from earlier VP and senior engineering roles at TrueChoice Solutions. Comfortable bridging product and exec priorities, she specializes in recruiting and coaching high-performing teams while architecting reliable systems. Ajahne combines startup agility with enterprise-grade delivery practices and a Master’s in Computer Science from Tufts, giving her both technical depth and organizational leadership. A detail that sets her apart: she has repeatedly transitioned between individual contributor engineering and executive strategy roles, keeping her technical instincts sharp while scaling organizations.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Tufts University