Michelle Hertzfeld
Product Manager (First PM Hire) at Terria
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Hertzfeld is a product leader and former engineering director with 12 years of experience building user-centered digital products across government, developer tooling, and spatial data. Currently the first PM hire at Terria, she translates customer and market insight into post-launch product iterations for browser-based digital twins, while also advising early-stage SaaS teams on go-to-market strategy. Her career blends hands-on front-end development and design (notably early work at 18F on high-impact public sites and contributions to prominent open-source projects) with product launches at Buildkite where she took Test Engine from beta to GA and established the company’s first ICP and case study program. Comfortable operating at the intersection of engineering, design, and marketing, Michelle is known for building cross-functional processes that keep teams low-stress and high-velocity. She brings a background in environmental policy and international work to product problems, often surfacing domain insights that others overlook.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaMPA/MA, Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management/East Asian Studies, MPA/MA, Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management/East Asian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington
Chinese, uyghur, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
documentation10
jekyll9
cicd8
font-awesome8
federation8
f8
ruby7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
buildkite/docs
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
The source files for the Buildkite documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:30 reviews, 63 commits, 18 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily contributed to the project by creating and updating documentation. They added detailed information, including setup instructions and environment variable configurations, for integrating Test Analytics with various CI tools and Ruby collectors. They also revamped existing documentation, improving clarity, correcting typos, and reorganizing content, with a focus on the Test Analytics features and collector integrations. Moreover, the user updated images and added details to existing documents.
buildkite-documentationbuildkitesource-files
18F/18f.gsa.gov
Jul 2014 - Nov 2015
The 18F website
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the 18F website. Their contributions included adding team member information to the roster and refactoring the existing Bootstrap framework by removing it in favor of Bourbon/Neat/Bitters. The user made changes to the site's layout, including the main page's sections, blog post styling, and responsiveness. The user also updated the slideshow and introduced Font Awesome icons for improved visual presentation.
federalistcssjavascript18f
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