Summary
Deepika Goel is an engineering manager based in New York with over a decade of hands-on software development and leadership experience, currently leading engineering at Lyft. She has built and scaled customer-facing SaaS and banking products for millions of users, including launching Kaplan’s first SaaS learning platform and delivering a banking solution used by 300k+ daily users at Stash. Deepika combines full‑stack technical depth (Node.js, Angular, Go, CI/CD) with strong operational rigor—cutting services by 50%, reducing support volume by 65%, and driving data‑informed roadmaps via Datadog. She’s known for fostering high‑performance teams, improving delivery velocity through mono-repos and design systems, and championing accessibility and testing cultures. An early career blend of product-facing roles and on-site client work gives her a practical empathy for stakeholder needs and a knack for translating requirements into automated, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering