Summary
Angela Riggs is an experienced engineering leader and quality-first practitioner with 11 years building and scaling QA and platform teams across startups and enterprise organizations. Currently an Engineering Manager for Cloud Platform at Sonos and Event Planning Co-Chair at the Multnomah Arts Center Association, she blends operational rigor—incident command, SLO/SLI strategy, and release management—with a people-first leadership style rooted in compassion and curiosity. Angela has a strong track record launching inaugural quality engineering teams, driving automation- and acceptance-test-first practices, and simplifying release processes to improve delivery predictability. She pairs technical coaching and career mentorship with pragmatic cost and reliability initiatives, having led SLO adoption, incident response programs, and cloud cost-down efforts. Based in Portland, she draws on an educator’s background and a JavaScript bootcamp foundation to translate complex technical work into teachable processes that uplift teams. Outside of core engineering work she channels a “leave it better than you found it” mindset into community-focused event leadership and inclusive hiring and interview redesigns.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Javascript bootcamp, Javascript bootcamp at Portland Code School
Bachelor of Science - BS Elementary Education, Bachelor of Science - BS Elementary Education at University of Central Florida