Emily Mcafee
Engineering Manager at Watershed
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Mcafee is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure and high-performing teams across fast-growing product companies. She’s led platform and productivity engineering at Mapbox and Netflix, growing teams, owning global multi-region systems, and guiding migrations that scaled API traffic from hundreds of thousands to millions of requests per minute. Currently at Watershed, she applies that operational rigor to climate-tech, helping enterprises measure and reduce emissions through dependable software. Emily pairs hands-on SRE and devops expertise with people-first management—she’s known for establishing onboarding and on-call practices that scale with growth. Unusually for a manager, she also recently completed Wilderness First Responder training, reflecting a practical, resilience-oriented approach to leadership.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree History, Bachelor's degree History at Swarthmore CollegeWilderness First Responder, Wilderness First Responder at NOLS
Github Skills (99)
docker-container10
amazon-ec210
amazon-dynamodb9
indexed9
region9
amazon9
dynamodb8
websocket8
aws8
elastic8
nodejs8
socket-io8
bounding7
replay7
javascript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emilymcafee/emilymcafee.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:50 pushes, 2 issues in 6 years 6 months
mapbox/DEPRECATED-aws-cfn-signalresource
Feb 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 2 years 6 months
signalaws-cloudformationretrieswrapsaws
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