Jaime Wheeler
Engineering Manager at Dropbox
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJaime Wheeler is an Engineering Manager in San Francisco with 14 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact web and mobile experiences. Currently at Dropbox, she blends hands-on engineering with people management, having previously driven product and performance gains as an engineering lead at BabyCenter and built teams and processes as Director of Development at BrightGauge. Her background spans full-stack development, technical program management, SEO-driven performance optimization, and scaling both in-house and outsourced teams. Jaime has contributed meaningful backend improvements to notable open-source projects like dropbox/zxcvbn, showing deep JavaScript and module-system expertise. She’s known for turning SEO and site-speed initiatives into measurable traffic wins and for mentoring engineers across career stages. Jaime’s combination of technical depth, operational leadership, and proven delivery on large migrations and performance projects makes her a pragmatic leader who still ships code.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Alabama in HuntsvilleWinterboro High School
English, Sign languages
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
code-library10
refactoring10
lib10
refactor10
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dropbox/zxcvbn
Apr 2012 - Oct 2017
Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 228 commits, 49 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jaime's commits primarily focused on improving and refactoring the core codebase of a password strength estimation library. Their work included fixing a bug related to exporting a JavaScript function, updating the build process, switching to node style module exports for better compatibility, and refactoring various parts of the library's matching, scoring, and init modules. These changes suggest a strong understanding of JavaScript and its module systems.
securitylow-budgetstrengthestimationpassword
lowe/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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