Edward Saavedra
Engineering Manager at DoorDash
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolEdward Saavedra is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience scaling teams and delivering measurable business impact at high-growth tech companies. Based in San Francisco, he has progressed from full-stack engineering and sales-operations roles into leadership positions where he builds high-performing cultures and mentors engineers to senior promotions. He specializes in observability, platform and growth engineering, and translating C-level strategy into technical execution across enterprise and consumer domains. His background blending product-facing implementation work (JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, React) with sales and marketing experience gives him a rare empathy for cross-functional stakeholders. At Everly Health and now DoorDash he has repeatedly expanded team capability while driving reliability and delivery cadence. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who elevates teams through clear processes and hands-on technical guidance.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Cinematography and Film/Video Production at University of Southern CaliforniaSaratoga High School
Github Skills (9)
mongoose6
code-generation6
cli5
python5
backend4
mongodb4
gpt3
ai3
nodejs3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
edsaav/mode
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
edsaav/nail
Apr 2023 - May 2023
Beyond chat and autosuggest - bringing AI code generation to the command line
Contributions:5 releases, 65 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 month
aiclicode-generationgptpython
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