Stephanie Stanley

VP of Engineering, Umber Grid - Kotlin · Android performance · Jetpack Compose

Umber Grid

New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)

14+ years experience

Penn State

English

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I lead mobile apps at Umber Grid in New York. Reduced cloud spend on Android by 33% in two quarters. Brought on-call pages for Android down from 20 a week to 1. Learning to sail.

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Android performanceGradleJetpack ComposeMVVMKotlinCoroutines

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Hiring a senior security engineer for the Android team - New York

Role: Senior security engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Hybrid
Compensation: $143k-$176k + equity
Team: Android, 16 people
Start: This quarter
Must have: Production experience with Jetpack Compose Production experience with Kotlin Ownership of something end to end
Process: Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $153k-$319k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

VP of Engineering
Jul 2022 - Present
Umber Grid · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Took crash-free sessions from 98.8% to 99.8%.
- Moved 80% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Led the migration of 79 services to MVVM.
Android Engineer
Nov 2019 - Jul 2022
Workday · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Reduced cloud spend on Android by 26% in two quarters.
- Wrote the Coroutines service that now handles 52 million requests a day.
Principal Engineer
Jun 2016 - Nov 2019
Datadog · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Led or co-led 20 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
Senior Android Engineer
Aug 2013 - Jun 2016
Cisco · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Grew the Android team from 5 to 18 engineers.
Director of Engineering
May 2012 - Aug 2013
Capital One · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 832ms to 58ms.
- Grew the Android team from 4 to 21 engineers.

Projects

Open-source Android performance toolkit

2025

A small library for mobile apps that 452 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Penn State
BS, Mathematics
1995 - 1999

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