Summary
Dorothy Jung is an engineering manager with 12 years of software and machine learning systems experience, currently leading teams at Netflix after several leadership roles at Yelp. She has repeatedly built and overseen cross-functional teams of software engineers, ML engineers, and applied scientists to improve recommendation, ad matching, and trust & safety systems at scale. Dorothy’s background includes hands-on engineering across ad backends and quality pipelines, as well as early R&D work in animation studio tooling and compiler integration, reflecting a strong systems and tooling mindset. Based in San Francisco and educated at UC Berkeley in Computer Science and French with honors, she combines technical depth with cross-cultural communication skills. Notably, she has moved between individual-contributor and management roles while consistently driving measurable algorithmic and product improvements in high-traffic environments.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science French with Honors, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science French with Honors at University of California, Berkeley
Korean, French