Madelyn Shaw

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Director of Engineering at Zoom · Mobile apps · Android performance, Gradle

Zoom
Nashville, TN · CT (UTC-6)
12+ years experience
UT Austin
English
Advising
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Overview

Currently at Zoom, where I lead mobile apps with a team of 44. Shipped 18 launches on the Android team without a rollback. Grew the Android team from 5 to 21 engineers. Before that: Goldman Sachs and Ford. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on mobile apps
  • Second opinions on MVVM decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Crypto token projects

Best reached early in the week

Skills
CoroutinesGradleMVVMKotlinAndroid performanceDjango
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Open to advising pre-seed teams on Android performance

Topics
mobile apps, Kotlin, MVVM
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

20 years of mobile apps. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Zoom · 6 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Wrote the Android performance service that now handles 67 million requests a day.
    • Took crash-free sessions from 98.8% to 99.9%.
    • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 22 a week to 3.
  2. Senior Android Engineer
    Aug 2023 - Apr 2026
    Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Feb 2021 - Aug 2023
    Ford · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Backed 58 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
  4. Senior Android Engineer
    Sep 2017 - Feb 2021
    Snowflake · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Wrote the Kotlin service that now handles 82 million requests a day.
    • Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  5. Android Engineer
    Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
    Comcast · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 20% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. UT Austin
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2002 - 2006

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