Malena Mesarina
Founder at StellarPeers
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMalena Mesarina is a founder and product leader with 12 years of experience building interview-prep marketplaces and driving product strategy at companies like Adobe and HP. As founder of StellarPeers she grew a global community to 20,000 users across 30+ countries, launching product, UX, and growth initiatives that produced sustained 20% MoM user growth and doubled post-signup engagement. She combines hands-on technical chops—having implemented backend APIs and analytics—with strategic competitive intelligence experience that influenced senior leadership product pivots at Adobe. Malena’s background spans research engineering and patent-driven R&D to MBA-trained product strategy, giving her a rare blend of technical depth and market-facing product judgment. She’s also a community builder and coach who runs hundreds of meetups and mock interviews, turning peer networks into measurable retention and revenue outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessUniversity of California, Los AngelesBachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at Boston University
Spanish, German, English
Stackoverflow
49reputation
7kreached
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7questions
Github Skills (12)
html6
extjs6
afnetworking6
cell6
ios6
api6
client-library6
dictionary6
facebook6
google5
flysystem5
php5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mmesarina/TestingBranchIO
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mmesarina/Intermediate_ControllignSource
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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