Julie Kang
Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulie Kang is a Staff Engineering Manager based in Oakland with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams and modernizing legacy systems. Currently a founding manager in GitHub’s Core Productivity division, she has a track record of launching new teams and shipping large-impact platforms such as Mailchimp’s Customer Journey Builder. She has led distributed, multinational engineering organizations through technical strategy, security and DevOps practices, SOC2 readiness, incident response, and high-traffic launches. As an entrepreneur and coach, she helps engineers — especially from under-represented communities — advance into technical leadership. Her background spans full-stack product work, high-throughput bioinformatics pipelines, and eCommerce microservices, reflecting both deep operational rigor and product sensibility. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic builder who combines people-first management with measurable delivery outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at App AcademyBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Stanford University
Spanish, Korean
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
sql6
groupby6
ruby6
science2
computer-science2
fundamental1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
juliekang/kidreads
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Contributions:74 commits in 14 days
juliekang/juliekang
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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