Cynthia A
Technical Lead Manager at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolCynthia A is a technical leader with a decade of engineering and management experience across high-profile Silicon Valley teams, currently serving as Technical Lead Manager at Waymo after roles as Software Engineer there and Engineering Manager at Google working on Cloud Firestore and Datastore. Her background spans hands-on software development, people leadership, and data science—she began her career in data science and even practiced as an intellectual property attorney, giving her a rare blend of technical, legal, and analytical perspective. At Google she led work on large-scale, low-latency storage systems, and at Waymo she’s transitioned that systems expertise into autonomy-focused engineering. Cynthia pairs a rigorous academic foundation in physics, math, and law from Harvard with pragmatic product delivery, making her adept at translating complex technical trade-offs for cross-functional stakeholders. Colleagues describe her as equally comfortable architecting distributed systems and mentoring engineers through career growth. Her trajectory reflects a curiosity for interdisciplinary problems and a talent for bridging research-grade thinking with production engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
AB Physics Math, AB Physics Math at Harvard UniversityJD, JD at Harvard Law School
Github Skills (16)
golang10
git10
batch10
github10
sql10
python10
java10
streaming10
beam10
apache9
patch9
data-processing9
apache-beam9
streaming-data9
big-data9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cynthiachi/machine-learning
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
cynthiachi/appengine-project
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 15 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.