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Madelyn Oliver

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VP of Engineering at Drift Studio · Real-time systems

Works at
Drift Studio
Location
Minneapolis, MN · CT (UTC-6)
Experience
12+ years experience
Education
Booth School of Business
Languages
English, Hindi
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

I've spent 21 years on real-time systems - first at Boeing, now at Drift Studio. Led the migration of 57 services to low-latency systems. Most at home with Erlang/OTP and low-latency systems. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Second opinions on low-latency systems decisions
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
Erlang/OTPRedisGoElixirlow-latency systemsWebSockets
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring a data engineer for the real-time team - Minneapolis

Role
Data engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$125k-$188k + equity
Team
Real-time, 14 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Clear written communication
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $210k-$315k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Minneapolis, MNrediserlang/otpwebsockets
Open

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Drift Studio · 7 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 508ms to 43ms.
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped 7 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2023 - Apr 2026
    Apple · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 4.
  3. Engineering Manager
    May 2020 - Jul 2023
    Intuit · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 2.
  4. Principal Engineer
    May 2018 - May 2020
    Robinhood · 2 yr · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Previously an operator for 12 years before investing.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2014 - May 2018
    Boeing · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Led the migration of 20 services to low-latency systems.

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Education

  1. Booth School of Business
    MBA, Business Administration
    2006 - 2008
  2. USC
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2001 - 2005

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