Summary
Stephanie Kuroda is a seasoned operations leader with 12 years of experience designing and running people-first, distributed workplace systems at thoughtbot in New York. She progressed from Office Manager to Senior Associate Director of Operations, leading global equipment provisioning, remote and in-person summit planning, vendor and facilities strategy, and DEI and L&D initiatives that shaped company policy. Known for turning cultural programs into scalable practices, she has a track record of improving documentation, ergonomics, and employee experience across multiple offices and fully remote teams. Her background in theater and content creation informs a collaborative, storytelling approach to engagement and change management. Pragmatic, detail-oriented, and creative, she pairs hands-on project execution with strategic operations planning to support distributed engineering organizations.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English and French, BA, English and French at University of Hawaii at Manoa