Serena Wales
Engineering Manager at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSerena Wales is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and leading web application teams across startups and scale-ups in the Bay Area. Currently at Figma after multiple leadership roles at Twilio, she blends hands-on expertise in Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and relational and document databases with product-focused delivery. She has deep experience in serverless and AI engineering domains, having led senior teams to productionize complex systems and data visualizations. As a former co‑founder and CTO of a civic tech startup and a Code for America fellow, she brings strong product intuition and a civic-minded approach to engineering. Colleagues know her for pairing pragmatic architecture with agile team coaching to move ambiguous projects to measurable outcomes. Based in San Francisco, she favors shipping usable interfaces underpinned by robust backend design.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Media Arts and Sciences, History, B.A., Media Arts and Sciences, History at Wellesley College
Github Skills (52)
snippet10
web-platform10
javascript10
browserstack10
opera10
testing10
safari10
test-runner10
browser10
gecko10
microsoft-edge10
google-chrome10
firefox10
dom10
blink10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gangleton/begin-functions-app
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
qualitybargain/blightstatus
Mar 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:395 commits in 7 months
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