Leslie Newell
Staff Product Manager at Bright Violet Home
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolLeslie Newell is a product leader with 14 years of experience building consumer and developer-facing software, currently serving as Staff Product Manager at Checkr and founder of a coaching business for overwhelmed parents. She has led cross-functional teams through major replatforms, shipped mobile-first course and commerce experiences, and driven measurable e-commerce wins like a 350% YoY cross-sell revenue increase at Wayfair. Equally fluent in Agile practice and hands-on execution, Leslie has a track record of improving start rates and conversion through experimentation and API-first re-architecture. Her background in engineering from Olin College and early technical internships at MITRE give her a rare blend of systems thinking and UX focus. She also translates product skills into service design and rapid business experimentation with Bright Violet Home, applying behavioral science to household workflows.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Engineering with Computing, Bachelor of Science Engineering with Computing at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringHigh School, High School at Jim Thorpe Senior High SchoolSummer Certificate Computer Science and Software Engineering, Summer Certificate Computer Science and Software Engineering at Aquincum Institute of Technology (AIT-Budapest)
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openedx-unsupported/edx-documentation
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:452 comments in 1 year
openedx/edx-ora2
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Open Response Assessment Suite
Contributions:51 comments in 11 months
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