Sydney Pickens
Technical Program Manager - Lead And Manager - WAN Planning at Google
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSydney Pickens is a Technical Program Manager and leader with 11 years at Google, currently heading WAN planning as a Lead and Manager focused on making the Google Search App outstanding. She has progressed through technical program management and engineering management roles across multiple Google locations, blending deep program delivery skills with hands-on network and infrastructure planning. Her background includes academic research and applied work dating back to a Computer Science master’s at Michigan State, reflecting a methodical, research-informed approach to engineering challenges. Known for bridging cross-functional teams and scaling complex programs, she brings both operational rigor and people leadership to high-stakes projects. Based in Ashburn, Virginia, she pairs cloud and WAN expertise with a product-first mindset that drives measurable improvements in user-facing services. A detail some may miss: her career path weaves research fellowship and contract roles into enterprise leadership, signaling adaptability between exploration and execution.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science at Lake Forest CollegeMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Michigan State University
Spanish
Github Skills (22)
mer9
graph-traversal8
count-min-sketch8
ide8
minhash8
bioinformatics8
ssa7
filtering6
sequence6
memgraph5
editor5
graph5
python5
traversal4
in-memory4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
caitsydney/khmer
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
graph-traversalmemorysequencenucleotide-sequencek-mer-counting
caitsydney/secret-hipster
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 issue in 2 months
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