Ella Davidson

Overview

I lead developer tools at Indigo Labs in New York. Wrote the LSP service that now handles 13 million requests a day. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 3. Before that: Goldman Sachs and Uber. I write short fiction no one reads.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Jun 2024 - Present
   Indigo Labs · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 33 a week to 1.
   • Shipped 26 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
   • Grew the developer experience team from 4 to 31 engineers.
2. Software Engineer

   Sep 2020 - Jun 2024
   Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 9 mo · Contract · New York, NY
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 19% in two quarters.
3. Software Engineer

   Mar 2017 - Aug 2020
   Uber · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 6.
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 39% in two quarters.
4. Software Engineer

   Feb 2014 - Jan 2017
   General Motors · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 5.
   • Moved 73% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. Rice University

   BA, Information Technology
   2009 - 2013