Ana Martinez
VP Of Engineering at Valence
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAna Martinez is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years in software and a track record of scaling teams and products through hypergrowth at companies like Zendesk, NerdWallet, and Slack. She has driven revenue-critical initiatives—most notably leading NerdWallet’s Credit Cards engineering team through multiple successful launches—and later led core product engineering at Slack to improve team collaboration features. Based in the New York City area, Ana blends hands-on technical depth with people-first leadership, maintaining high morale while delivering complex cross-functional projects on time. Her background spans security, internationalization, and product-critical systems, reflecting a broad operational and technical toolkit. She recently transitioned into executive roles at Valence after a stint applying management practices to a family-owned business, showing an unusual willingness to apply tech leadership skills outside traditional product companies. Ana holds an MS in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon and is known for reliably turning ambiguous product goals into measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Universidad Anahuac MayabMaster in Science Software Management, Master in Science Software Management at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
plugin-architecture10
architecture9
file-metadata9
continuous-delivery9
docker8
cd8
kubernetes8
continuous-deployment8
cldr7
metadata6
md56
aws-s35
aws5
mruby3
ruby2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
anamartinez/ruby-cldr-timezones
Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:29 commits in 4 months
translatedcldr
anamartinez/anamartinez.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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