Kristen Manning
Engineering Manager at Extend
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Manning is an engineering manager based in New York with nine years of experience leading teams from zero-to-one and scaling engineering organizations. She combines product-minded development, design thinking, and cross-functional collaboration to translate business goals into pragmatic technical strategies and coach engineers on impact-driven work. At Brilliant.org she progressed from software engineer to Director of Engineering, growing the team and delivering foundational platform changes without disrupting users, and more recently has held engineering leadership roles at Hometap and Extend. Kristen’s background in building educator-focused products and earlier research work at Princeton gives her a rare blend of academic rigor and product empathy that surfaces practical, user-centered technical solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
neuroscience10
python10
modeling10
cognitive-science10
nodes7
directed-acyclic-graph6
graph5
expressive4
scheduler3
dag2
anonymous2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KristenManning/lama-forsaken
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 110 pushes, 11 branches in 7 months
KristenManning/locus
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:42 pushes in 6 days
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