Summary
Liza 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
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Computer Science, M.Sc, Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Alternative Dispute Resolution Companion, Alternative Dispute Resolution Companion at University of Haifa