Melanie Warrick
Developer Relations Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelanie Warrick is a versatile developer relations engineering leader and founder with 13 years of experience building and managing software teams across startups, enterprises, and nonprofits in multiple countries. Currently at Temporal and co-founding Fight Health Insurance, she blends hands-on backend engineering—contributing to well-known open-source projects like Tailscale—with people leadership roles at companies such as Google, Virta Health, and Tailscale. Her background spans data engineering, machine learning, and deep learning productization, informed by an MBA and diverse business consulting roots, which helps her translate nebulous problems into pragmatic technical and product solutions. Comfortable shipping infrastructure-level fixes (e.g., DNS and backend integrations) and standing up teams solo, she brings an uncommon mix of strategic, operational, and implementation skills.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA Cinema/TV Production, BA Cinema/TV Production at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of CambridgeMBA, MBA at The George Washington University School of BusinessBS International Finance, BS International Finance at USC Marshall School of Business
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Github Skills (26)
vpn10
wireguard10
tailscale10
go10
dns10
database8
apidoc8
api8
databases8
database-api8
deeplearning4j6
configurations6
docker6
hdfs6
file-conversion6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tailscale/tailscale
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 9 commits, 16 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Melanie primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure of the Tailscale project. They implemented features related to exit node status, including adding new data structures and integrating them into the local backend. Additionally, they addressed DNS-related issues in the systemd-resolved manager, ensuring more robust handling of D-Bus restarts and improving overall DNS configuration. The user also made updates to allow the use of new domains.
secureprivacysecurityvpnwireguard
nyghtowl/Interview_Problems
Jun 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:353 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
cppcolleaguesleetcodealgortihmsproblems
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