Michelle Schneider

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CTO at Alder Foods | ex-Mastercard

Alder Foods
Los Angeles, CA · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
NYU
English
Hiring
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Overview

I've spent 28 years on real-time systems - first at Wells Fargo, now at Alder Foods. Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 42% in two quarters. Before that: Mastercard and Stripe. Most at home with Erlang/OTP and WebSockets. Chess on lunch breaks.

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Skills
low-latency systemsErlang/OTPRedisWebSockets
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for a security engineer who has worked on WebSockets at scale

Role
Security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$122k-$153k + equity
Team
Real-time, 6 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with WebSockets Production experience with Redis Clear written communication
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $206k-$306k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Los Angeles, CAlow-latency systemsrediswebsockets
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Experience

  1. CTO
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Alder Foods · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 27 a week to 4.
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 864ms to 78ms.
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2021 - Feb 2024
    Mastercard · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 355ms to 136ms.
  3. Staff Software Engineer
    Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
    Stripe · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Wrote the Redis service that now handles 28 million requests a day.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2016 - May 2018
    Verizon · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Backed 53 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Aug 2014 - Jul 2016
    Wells Fargo · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Built the experimentation framework 25 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

  1. NYU
    BA, Computer Science
    1993 - 1997

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