Kay Ashaolu
Sr. Manager, Engineering at Pinterest
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKay Ashaolu is a senior engineering leader with 11 years of experience building full-stack web platforms and scaling distributed teams, currently managing 20+ engineers in Pinterest’s global Monetization organization. She combines hands-on expertise in JavaScript/React, Node, Python and Java with product-focused delivery—shaping the UI surfaces advertisers use to create and optimize ads. An educator as well as a manager, she teaches front- and back-end web architecture at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, bringing curriculum design and real-world engineering practices into the classroom. Her background includes driving major data pipeline and identity projects at Nuna and Ancestry, where she improved throughput and modularity at scale. Based in Walnut Creek, she blends technical depth, instructional skill, and organizational design experience—often rethinking team structures and onboarding to boost long-term productivity.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Information Management Systems, M.S., Information Management Systems at UC Berkeley School of InformationCertificate in Management of Technology, Certificate in Management of Technology at Haas School of Business, UC BerkeleyB.S.E., Electrical Engineering, B.S.E., Electrical Engineering at Princeton University
Github Skills (8)
python9
kubernetes9
architecture5
javascript5
css5
frontend4
python-course4
cli3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UCB-INFO-FRONTEND-WEBARCH/ucb-info-frontend-webarch.github.io
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
INFO 253 Front End Web Architecture Course Website
Contributions:60 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
web-front-endcssjavascriptcourse-websitefrontend
UCB-INFO-WEB-FRONTEND-FL18/course-materials
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 27 pushes in 3 months
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