Daphne Rouw is an engineering manager and seasoned software leader based in Melbourne with 11 years' experience building and leading web engineering teams, primarily at Zendesk. She progressed from hands-on Ruby/Rails roles into staff engineering and management, blending deep technical chops with people leadership and delivery ownership. Daphne has a strong Rails background from early roles and community projects (RailsGirls, TEDx builds) and continues to ship customer-facing web products at scale. Her career also spans sales and regional partner management in APAC, giving her rare cross-functional insight into product-market fit and customer operations. Active online — blogging and sharing code as daphsta — she brings a practical, user-focused lens to engineering decisions and team growth.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Iowa State University
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