Courtney Hemphill
Product And Engineering Executive, Board Member, Advisor at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCourtney Hemphill is a product and engineering executive with 25 years of experience building and scaling user-centric product organizations, most recently leading a 400+ person PXEL practice at West Monroe. She partners with founders and executives to launch early platforms—helping startups like Masterclass and FertilityIQ reach significant revenue milestones—and advises growth-stage and enterprise teams to turn strategic initiatives into measurable financial outcomes. A pragmatic believer in balanced product trios and rigorous first principles, she focuses on putting the right people in the right conversations to accelerate delivery and inclusion. Courtney is an active conference speaker and committee leader (QCon), mentors Techstars entrepreneurs, serves on multiple boards including 8th Light and NatureBridge, and contributes hands-on to open-source community projects like RailsBridge’s event management system. An avid rock climber and former sponsored athlete, she brings discipline and a long-term risk/strategy mindset to product and team development.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
FOUNDATIONS: GENERAL MANAGEMENT, FOUNDATIONS: GENERAL MANAGEMENT at Harrison-MetalBachelor of Science (BS) Biology General, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology General at University of Chicago
Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
activerecord10
event-manager10
api-rest10
eventbus10
rspec10
rest-api10
rails10
event-handling10
api-design10
ruby-on-rails10
restful-api10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
railsbridge/bridge_troll
May 2012 - May 2012
Event management system for all the Bridges (RailsBridge, MobileBridge, GoBridge, etc!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Courtney primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of an event management system. Their work included refactoring methods in the Event model, such as `volunteering?`, and implementing features related to volunteer RSVP management. They updated routes and controller actions, and added tests to ensure the robustness of the volunteer system. The user also refactored code and removed commented-out lines.
management-systemevent-management-systemevent-managementrailsruby
courtney/fluentconf2015
Jul 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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