Willow Idlewild
Manager at GoFundMe
San Leandro, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWillow Idlewild is a seasoned program manager with 11 years of experience operating at the nexus of human systems, security, and emerging technology, now leading programs at GoFundMe after managing security engineering at Apple. She has a proven track record running red teams, human-in-the-loop systems, and risk management for high-impact, complex environments while translating technical risk for executive audiences. Willow combines academic research on decentralized civic media and disaster response with hands-on operations and delivery experience across startups, nonprofits, and large tech. She excels at cross-disciplinary facilitation, designing operational processes, and onboarding practices that scale across engineering organizations. An unconventional asset is her background in visual facilitation and community-building, which she leverages to make abstract systems and governance discussions tangible.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Sociology Religion, BS Sociology Religion at Indiana University Bloomington
German, Swahili
Github Skills (1)
microservices4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
trussworks/distributed-playbook
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
A playbook about how we work together as a distributed team.
Contributions:14 commits, 5 pushes, 2 comments in 5 months
distributed-teamhow-we-workmicroservicesplaybookdistributed
willowbl00/data-driven-introspection
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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