Polina Grinbaum
Senior Engineering Manager at Wirecutter
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorPolina Grinbaum is a Senior Engineering Manager in San Francisco with 12 years of hands-on experience building high-performing, collaborative engineering teams and shipping production web platforms. She blends deep front-end roots—leading large rewrites and creating reusable CSS frameworks—with engineering management across nonprofit and publishing sectors, currently guiding technical delivery at Wirecutter. Polina has a track record of instituting quality practices, automated testing, and scalable configuration systems to help microsite and platform services grow more efficiently. Comfortable contributing code and conducting reviews, she pairs technical rigor with hiring, mentoring, and cross-functional communication. Notably, her career spans both product-focused startups and mission-driven organizations, giving her a knack for translating research and editorial needs into robust engineering roadmaps.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
journal3
utility2
styles2
django2
open-access2
fonts1
content-repository1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PLOS/PLOS-style
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
A shared repository for fonts styles and the like.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
stylesutilityfontfonts
PLOS/wombat
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:221 commits, 102 PRs, 125 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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