Dee Wilcox
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDee Wilcox is an accomplished technology executive and current Newsela CTO with 11 years of experience leading engineering, data, and ML teams to build scalable education products and platform infrastructure. She has a track record of launching platform and product initiatives—breaking monoliths into autonomous teams, shipping interactive video and admin experiences, and building platform engineering from scratch. Dee has led global organizations through 10x growth and also through cost-optimization phases, cutting technology spend by 65% while maintaining roadmap delivery. A board member at The Educators' Cooperative and an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate holder, she blends strategic business acumen with hands-on technical fluency across Python, AWS, React, and data systems. Colleagues describe her as a culture-first leader who fosters creativity, speed, and trust while partnering closely with product and business stakeholders to align technology strategy with outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MIT Sloan Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, MIT Sloan Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at MIT Sloan Executive EducationBachelor of Science, Organizational Leadership and Management, Bachelor of Science, Organizational Leadership and Management at Regent UniversityMaster of Business Administration (MBA) - IT Management, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA) - IT Management, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Western Governors University
Stackoverflow
872reputation
85kreached
18answers
15questions
command-line-interface
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Github Skills (19)
command-line-interface9
autocomplete8
compose7
subdomain6
php6
amazon-web-services6
forms6
jquery6
python6
mobile-website6
cakephp6
javascript6
databases4
data-warehouse4
sql4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
deewilcox/manager-readme
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
Get to know what it's like to work with me
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 11 months
deewilcox/database_sanitizer
Apr 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 years 7 months
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