Zeleena Kearney is a software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable infrastructure and distributed systems, currently contributing at Google after roles at Lyft and Applied Predictive Technologies. She holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering (with a Biomedical Engineering double major) from Carnegie Mellon, where she also taught courses in distributed systems and core CS foundations. Her background spans site reliability and compute engineering, with internships and early roles at Google and DigitalOcean that informed a strong operational mindset. Based in Seattle, she combines academic rigor with hands-on production experience, often working at the intersection of systems design and scalability. Notably, her trajectory reflects a consistent focus on infrastructure resilience and mentoring—bridging teaching experience with production engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Penn Hills Senior High School
University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Carnegie Mellon University
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