Mai Irie is a senior engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling product and platform teams across startups and mission-driven organizations. Currently a Senior Engineering Manager at MyFitnessPal, she has a track record of restructuring teams, defining platform charters, and establishing clear career frameworks to accelerate delivery and grow engineering organizations. She led global expansions and rapid hires at Spring Health, stabilized flaky CI to improve test reliability from 71% to 97% at Forem, and delivered cost- and time-saving platform migrations at DoSomething.org. Comfortable balancing hands-on technical strategy with people leadership, Mai excels at aligning engineering roadmaps with product priorities and embedding asynchronous practices to boost collaboration across time zones. Her background combines formal CS training with a creative foundation in design, enabling pragmatic solutions that consider both user experience and operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bacher of Arts Fine Arts: Graphic Design, Bacher of Arts Fine Arts: Graphic Design at Yale University
Masters Computer and Information Technology, Masters Computer and Information Technology at University of Pennsylvania
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