Michelle Zimmerman

Overview

Based in Calgary. I lead developer tools at Meta. Grew the developer experience team from 3 to 19 engineers. Built the experimentation framework 25 product teams use to ship changes safely. Collector of fountain pens.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Nov 2024 - Present
   Meta · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
   • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 530ms to 130ms.
2. Engineering Manager

   Jul 2021 - Oct 2024
   Electronic Arts · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 14 a week to 4.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
   Shopify · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
   • Led the migration of 55 services to Rust.
   • Built the experimentation framework 34 product teams use to ship changes safely.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
   Microsoft · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 794ms to 45ms.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 5.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Nov 2013 - Jan 2017
   BMO · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
   • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 35 million requests a day.

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Education

1. University of Waterloo

   BMath, Electrical Engineering
   2004 - 2008