Rebecca Bates

Overview

17 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Radix Commerce, where I lead the data platform team. Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 31% in two quarters.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Dec 2023 - Present
   Radix Commerce · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Grew the data platform team from 5 to 32 engineers.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Aug 2020 - Dec 2023
   PayPal · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Engineering Manager

   May 2019 - Aug 2020
   DoorDash · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Grew the data platform team from 5 to 20 engineers.
   • Shipped 30 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
4. Staff Data Engineer

   Mar 2017 - May 2019
   LinkedIn · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Replaced 111 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
5. Engineering Manager

   May 2015 - Dec 2016
   Databricks · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 31 a week to 3.

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Education

1. Virginia Tech

   BS, Electronics and Communication
   2005 - 2009