Valerie Phoenix
Senior Engineering Manager at Heartflow
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValerie Phoenix is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Los Angeles with over a decade of experience building and scaling product-driven, AI-enabled systems. She blends hands-on full-stack expertise in Python, JavaScript/React, and AWS with a track record of launching ML-powered features that boost engagement, cut costs, and create new revenue streams. Valerie has repeatedly scaled distributed engineering teams, reduced technical debt, and improved delivery predictability through clear roadmaps, QA rigor, and cross-functional collaboration. Her background spans startups and healthcare/education/social-good projects where she pairs UX and security focus with pragmatic architecture choices. Beyond management, she has personally built custom LLM-based solutions and blockchain-enabled experiences, demonstrating both technical depth and product creativity. Colleagues describe her as a mentor-first leader who cultivates autonomy, inclusion, and measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Northridge
Github Skills (10)
react6
vite4
router4
isomorphic4
routes4
open-source3
riotjs3
mui2
typescript2
vue1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TechByChoice/tbc-members-core-ui
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
TBC Frontend project that holds the community together
Contributions:14 reviews, 82 PRs, 221 pushes in 9 months
muinonprofitopen-tbcreactvite
TechByChoice/tbc-members-core-api
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 99 PRs, 298 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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