Summary
Julie Yaunches is a senior software engineer and technical leader with 17 years of experience delivering client, full-stack, and data solutions across startups and large enterprises. Currently building orchestrated AI agents and observability tooling at NVIDIA, she blends deep architectural judgment with a bias for speed-to-market. Her background spans device and mobile platform engineering, startup CTO work, and director-level leadership at Condé Nast, giving her a rare mix of hands-on delivery and product-minded strategy. Julie thrives in dynamic, multi-disciplinary teams where she mentors engineers, aligns technical vision with business outcomes, and untangles complex integrations. She has practical experience designing hardware-integrated mobile systems and shipping SDKs, and she regularly organizes community learning—evidenced by leading the Brooklyn Swift Engineering Meetup. Based in New York, she brings a pragmatic, people-centered approach to building scalable, agentic, and data-driven systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Illinois State University