Victoria Thevenot
Senior Manager at NBCUniversal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictoria Thevenot is a Senior Manager and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building high-traffic news products and leading frontend teams for NBCUniversal’s Breaking and Live group in New York. She combines hands-on full-stack and backend experience—particularly with Ruby/Sinatra and robust test automation—with people-first management that reduced churn and propelled team growth through clear advocacy and career development. Victoria has shipped large-scale live coverage solutions (notably multi-platform liveblogs that drove up to 1M concurrent readers and massive Apple News and web traffic during major primaries and Super Tuesday) and established testing and architecture practices like adopting React Testing Library. She pairs editorial product intuition with technical rigor, running retrospectives and cross-functional collaboration to deliver reliable, time-sensitive experiences. Early career work includes curriculum design and instruction at Flatiron School, reflecting a knack for translating complex concepts into teachable systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Flatiron SchoolHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Episcopal High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English at The University of the South
French
Github Skills (51)
database-migrations10
unit-testing10
api-rest10
javascript10
test-driven-design10
jquery10
web-application10
validations10
session-management10
api-design10
typed-array10
restful-api10
multidimensional-arrays10
testing10
css10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
learn-co-students/playlister-sinatra-v-000
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:432 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Victoria primarily contributed to the testing and implementation of features within the Playlister Sinatra application. Their commits focused on writing and modifying RSpec tests for model and feature specifications. They addressed issues related to slug generation, form handling, and view rendering. Additionally, they added redirect tests for create and edit functionality.
learn-co-curriculum/sinatra-fwitter-group-project
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 4 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Victoria contributed significantly to the development of a Sinatra-based Fwitter application. They implemented core features, including user signup, login, and logout functionality. They built out the backend with routes for creating, viewing, and deleting tweets, as well as user profiles. The user also added tests for several application features.
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