Summary
Sherry Kao is a technology leader with 20+ years of experience who currently directs Technical Program Management at Nordstrom, overseeing a matrixed organization of TPM managers and 40 staff supporting ~$9B in inventory and a portfolio of 400+ applications. She has deep domain expertise in media, entertainment, and retail platforms, having led cloud-native SaaS, transcoding, and advanced-format initiatives at Deluxe that bridged product, engineering, and data science to operationalize AI/ML and UHD workflows. Known for driving organizational agility, she builds Communities of Practice and scalable metrics frameworks that cut manual reporting and improve capacity planning. Sherry combines hands-on technical roots—from DVD/Blu-ray authoring and scripting to platform modernization—with strategic program leadership, enabling large cross-functional teams to deliver on enterprise OKRs. Based in Los Angeles, she pairs finance-aware resource planning with a proven knack for turning experimental media technologies into repeatable, revenue-generating operations.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese