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Erica Gomez

Director Of Engineering
Santa Clara

Summary

Engineering lead with over 18 years of experience cultivating healthy engineering centers of excellence and launching products that customers care about, all at massive scale. Expertise in Compiler and Dev Infrastructure, E-Commerce, Aerospace, and Search Engines.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director of Engineering

Google
5 2020 - Current
  • Director and cross-Google lead of C++ Compilers, Runtimes, and Toolchains, a globally-distributed infra org that owns a portfolio of foundational developer technologies including LLVM, debuggers, optimizers, and core libraries.
  • Ownership of the vision, mission, and strategy; organizational development and hiring; setting KPIs and the operational excellence bar; ensuring alignment with SVP-level leadership and Google-wide goals.
  • Driver of continuous improvements to division-wide engineering processes.
  • Mentor and guide to principal-level engineers and senior engineering managers.

Sr Software Eng Manager, Retail

Amazon.com
12.2014 - 04.2020
  • Launched payment methods and shopping experiences on Amazon.com: (1) Electronics Benefits Transfer (EBT) payments, (2) Health Savings and Flexible Spending Account (HSA/FSA) acceptance for healthcare-related products, and (3) cash acceptance.
  • Senior Manager of 25+ engineers and managers, with teams in US and Canada; product planning; stakeholder management; long-range technical strategy; operations; career development; technical execution and delivery.
  • Launched 20+ programs for Hardlines Retail with $1B+ revenue impact, including: Amazon Wedding Registry, Alexa Smart Home shopping, collection-based shopping for home goods, personalized search optimizations, and new pricing models.
  • Recruitment lead as an Amazon Bar Raiser.

Engineering Product Manager

Microsoft
06.2011 - 03.2014
  • Product owner of operational health and data enrichments on Bing search requests, both at edge network and search federation layer. Owned product vision, definition, and execution for team of 30+ engineers.
  • Delivered data analytics and optimizations on request enrichments, including: location, markets, DDoS, bot detection, and capacity/business continuity planning on the Microsoft edge network.
  • Ensured 4-9s service uptime and sub-second latency on page load.

Senior Software Engineer

Boeing
10.2006 - Jun 2011
  • Senior Software Engineer for Airplane Health Management (AHM), providing operational characteristics of commercial aircraft and prognostic maintenance to airlines in real-time.
  • Developed features and product enhancements (specs, code, SCM, QA, release), data engineering for ETL pipelines, 24/7 on-call operations support.
  • AHM Product Representative for US-, EU-, and LATAM-based airlines.
  • Technologies: Java, JSP, HTML/CSS, XML, and SQL on Unix platform.

Application Support Supervisor

activePDF, Inc
06.2006 - 10.2006

Education

Masters of Software Engineering -

Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
12.2006 - 12.2008

B.S - Computer Science

University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
07.2001 - 12.2004

Skills

Organizational Development, Greenfield and Turnarounds

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Accomplishments

  • Conference speaker (Power to Fly 2018, multiple Amazon conferences, multiple Google conferences)
  • Code.org educational presenter
  • Featured in The Seattle Times, NBC.com, FastCompany.com

Timeline

Sr Software Eng Manager, Retail

Amazon.com
12.2014 - 04.2020

Engineering Product Manager

Microsoft
06.2011 - 03.2014

Masters of Software Engineering -

Brandeis University
12.2006 - 12.2008

Senior Software Engineer

Boeing
10.2006 - Jun 2011

Application Support Supervisor

activePDF, Inc
06.2006 - 10.2006

B.S - Computer Science

University of California, Irvine
07.2001 - 12.2004

Director of Engineering

Google
5 2020 - Current

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