Natalie Olivo

I am an engineering leader and mentor focused on growing engineers and building great technology products. I have a strong interest in building great teams and software through facilitating ownership and providing strong advocacy.

Recent accomplishments include:

• Serve role as Hiring Manager for Better Growth Engineering org, helping to grow the team from 8 - 30 engineers in under 2 years.
• Manage a team of 6-8 Junior-level to Senior Software Engineers. This includes career ladder leveling, technical mentorship, team planning and execution towards core team KPIs.
• Own Better.com infrastructure (over 1 million users), including support of third-party and cross-team front and back-end web services (responsible for powering location based rate quotes, marketing content and other data concerns)
• Coordinate efforts with key cross-functional stakeholders, including Product Owners, Data Engineers and Technical Leads to determine and deliver on success metrics.
• Implemented plan to drive Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) down 20% resulting in greater response time and reduction of tier one outage issues.
• Mentored both Apprentice and Junior Level Engineers to next level at both Flatiron school and Insider through a hyper growth phase, resulting in increase in team competency and execution.
• Increased unit level test coverage of key front end functionality from 0% to 54% during re-platform of businessinsider.com front end architecture.
• Increased time to first paint by 6% on user facing Insider sites using techniques such as font lazy loading and critical resource path optimization.