Willa Wang
Senior Engineering Manager at Mercury
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilla Wang is a Senior Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable products across advertising, events, and HR software. Based in Boulder, she has a track record of driving major transitions—scaling teams (e.g., Reddit Ads from 5 to 14 with full retention), aligning product vision to engineering roadmaps, and achieving high execution fidelity like a 95% say/do rate at SeatGeek. She pairs hands-on technical problem-solving (permission systems, GDPR migrations, CI/CD and performance optimizations) with a clear focus on mentorship, coaching multiple promotions and fostering high-performance cultures. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, she reduces cycle time and costs through pragmatic automation and design systems. Notably, she has led initiatives that cut deployment time by 30% and engineered backend-for-frontend patterns that shrank page load times dramatically. Willa blends strategic planning with detailed delivery discipline, making her adept at turning complex product requirements into operational, measurable outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Xidian University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (19)
javascript9
compiler8
ruby-on-rails8
ruby8
capybara7
uicollectionview7
minitest6
rspec6
instagram6
testing6
ios5
objective-c4
lists4
swift4
uikit4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
willawill/Interview
Dec 2011 - Aug 2018
Preparation for interview
Contributions:79 commits, 1 push in 6 years 9 months
ruby-on-railspreparationruby
willawill/follower_maze
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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