Julie Nisbet is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience who combines an MBA-backed strategic mindset with deep hands-on software and teaching experience to drive product and team outcomes. She has a track record of building low-burnout, high-accountability teams and engineering systems that eliminated code-caused P0 incidents and helped lift product–market fit from 27% to 40%. Comfortable in stages from early startups to scale, she has led full-stack development, authored a professional Python course, and directed software instruction to accelerate developer learning. Julie partners closely with Product and Design to navigate ambiguity, reorganizations, and rapid growth while coaching individual contributors to higher impact. Her background in analytics and operations (from roles at Next Street and Rearden) gives her a practical edge in turning metrics into prioritization and execution. Based in New York, she now leads engineering at Gusto, bringing a rare mix of pedagogy, product empathy, and operational rigor.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, Statistics (Minor), BS, Mathematics, Statistics (Minor) at University of Michigan
MS-MBA (MS in Information Systems), Business Administration, MS-MBA (MS in Information Systems), Business Administration at Boston University Graduate School of Management
Contributions:15 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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