Summary
Amanda Adams is a Principal Engineering Manager based in Mill Valley with 11 years of experience leading mobile and Android teams at top-tier product companies including Atlassian, Dropbox, Substack, Venmo, and PAX Labs. She specializes in delivering OKRs, mentoring engineers, and improving organizational processes and internal tooling to scale high-performing mobile organizations. Amanda moves between hands-on Android expertise and leadership—she’s repeatedly taken mobile teams through reorganizations and product pivots, most recently steering Jira Mobile and now Loom at Atlassian. Known for pairing people-first management with pragmatic engineering practices, she focuses on measurable improvements in delivery cadence and developer experience. Her background in communications and applied economics gives her a knack for aligning technical work with business outcomes and stakeholder needs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Horace Mann School
BS Communications & Applied economics and management, BS Communications & Applied economics and management at Cornell University