Liza Fireman
Senior Director Of Engineering at Datadog
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiza Fireman is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling mission-critical systems across Google, Meta/Facebook, Snowflake and now Datadog, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering in New York. She has led large, cross-functional organizations (60–70 engineers) responsible for high-impact products from Marketplace safety and Community Chats to storage SRE and machine intelligence, blending product intuition with technical rigor. Her background spans low-level infrastructure, production SRE, and AI/vision teams as well as cloud integrations—evidenced by hands-on contributions to PowerShell tooling for Azure AD in a prominent Windows Server docs repo. Known for turning ambiguous research and platform problems into reliable production services, she combines research-informed decision making with operational discipline. A Technion M.Sc. graduate who also studied dispute resolution, she brings both technical depth and a pragmatic, human-centered approach to risk, trust, and team leadership.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyAlternative Dispute Resolution Companion, Alternative Dispute Resolution Companion at University of Haifa
Github Skills (11)
azure-resource-manager10
resource-manager10
azuread10
powershell10
arm10
active-directory10
azure-active-directory10
scripting10
windows-server9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/windowsserverdocs
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
Public content repository for Windows Server content.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2099 commits, 606 PRs, 623 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Liza primarily contributed to PowerShell scripts related to Azure Active Directory (AAD) application creation and configuration for Honolulu (Windows Admin Center). The commits involve modifying scripts that interact with Azure Resource Manager and Azure AD modules. The user's work focuses on managing AAD applications for features like Azure Site Recovery, indicating a specialization in back-end development related to cloud services integration and PowerShell scripting for system administration tasks within a Windows Server environment. The changes suggest a need to adapt and maintain scripts used to deploy new features in the server environment.
windows-server-2016windows-serverwindowswindows-servicecontent-repository
aboutdev/microsoft-365-docs
May 2023 - May 2023
This repo is used to host the source for the Microsoft 365 documentation on https://docs.microsoft.com.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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