Summary
Melissa Mccoy is a product and tech founder with 11 years of experience building consumer and enterprise products that expand access in middle- and low-income markets. As Co-Founder & CPO at a stealth startup and former Lead Product Manager across Google Pay, Maps Enterprise, and Files by Google, she has launched cross-functional initiatives from BNPL integrations to regional wallets and navigation SDKs, driving adoption in LatAm, SE Asia, and Africa. She combines startup grit—co-founding and exiting ConnectMed after scaling telehealth services for 8,000+ patients—with enterprise rigor, having secured executive buy-in up to CEO/GM levels and led teams of 30–50 cross-functional contributors. Comfortable bridging engineering and strategy, Melissa pairs an Oxford MSc/MBA and software bootcamp training with hands-on product delivery in resource-constrained markets. A recurring theme in her career is translating user research into pragmatic MVPs and partnerships that unlock new rails and revenue in emerging economies.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Salutatorian, Salutatorian at Highland Park High School
MSc Computer Science & MBA, MSc Computer Science & MBA at University of Oxford
BS Chemical Engineering, BS Chemical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Software Engineering Program (6 mo San Francisco), Software Engineering Program (6 mo San Francisco) at Dev Bootcamp
Tech & Entrepreneurship Summer Program (2.5 mo Silicon Valley), Tech & Entrepreneurship Summer Program (2.5 mo Silicon Valley) at Singularity University
English, Spanish