Melissa Young
SVP, Engineering at Vox Media
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Young is a fractional CTO and seasoned technology leader with 11+ years of hands-on engineering and 15+ years of cross-functional experience scaling teams from startup to 75+ people. She combines deep coding fluency across platform migrations, adtech, data pipelines, and CMS builds with executive-level operating experience—managing a $40M budget and delivering multi-million dollar cloud savings. At Vox Media she led distributed engineering across data, infrastructure, mobile and revenue products, drove enterprise AI adoption that doubled tool usage across 600+ employees, and architected AI-assisted developer workflows to boost velocity. She advises on technical strategy, architecture, vendor selection and phased roadmaps while still preferring to roll up her sleeves to implement systems and migrations. With a background in journalism and communications, she emphasizes clear, efficient stakeholder communication and pragmatic process design that balances tooling with team autonomy. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, she brings a rare blend of editorial sensibility, product-minded engineering, and operational rigor to growth and transformation challenges.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S/ B.A. Journalism and English, B.S/ B.A. Journalism and English at University of Florida
Spanish, English
Github Skills (4)
ads7
java6
adblock5
development-kit4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
voxmedia/revenue-hiring
May 2018 - Oct 2020
Hiring Guide and Programming Examples
Contributions:5 reviews, 10 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 5 months
javahiring
GannettDigital/GannettAdKit
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Ad development kit for designing and developing ads for USA TODAY and other Gannett sites.
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
development-kitadsdevelopingadblocksites
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