Summary
Talanda Williams is an experienced Engineering Manager based in Portland with a decade of hands-on software and leadership experience delivering web and hospitality technology platforms. She blends full-stack development (PHP/Symfony, Laravel, React/Next.js, Python) with operational expertise in AWS, CI/CD, and system architecture while still contributing production code. Talanda has led and scaled small, cross-functional teams through sprint planning, roadmap prioritization, and mentoring, and brought reliability and performance focus to revenue-critical and multi-currency reservation systems. Her background in IT support and onboarding gives her a practical, user-centered view of tooling and developer productivity that informs her management style. She’s an advocate for leveraging Gen AI to accelerate development velocity and for using technology to advance equity and justice. Known for maximizing time and impact, she often juggled multiple concurrent roles early in her career to accelerate learning and delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at California State University, Monterey Bay