Summary
Meara Charnetzki is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience leading teams to build maintainable, inclusive, and operationally efficient codebases. Currently at DebtBook after leading migrations and cross-functional projects at Stitch Fix, she blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic architecture and product-minded decision making. She has a track record of reducing support burden and automating repetitive work—saving hundreds of engineer-hours—by turning legacy systems into modern services and tools. As a former consultant and coach, she mentors engineers, runs onboarding and skill-up programs (including a Go book club), and helps clients weigh technical tradeoffs against product goals. Her background spans web, Rails, Go, and SRE practices, grounded in early scientific research training that sharpens her experimental, data-driven approach to problem solving. Based in Charlottesville, VA, she seeks remote-friendly engineering manager roles focused on team health and long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. with Honors in Biological Chemistry, B.A. Chemistry, 3.50 / 4.00, B.S. with Honors in Biological Chemistry, B.A. Chemistry, 3.50 / 4.00 at University of Chicago
English, French