Rocio Montes

Engineering Manager

San Diego, California, United States18 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Engineering leader at GitHub building reliable systems
  • Passionate about uplifting women in tech
  • Experienced in leading open source initiatives
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with a strong focus on Quality Engineering and Open Source contributions.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavascriptWeb DevelopmentOpen SourceQuality EngineeringTestingSocial Media

Other Skills

Java.NETHTMLDatabasesPL/SQLSoftware ConsultingTest AutomationRelease EngineeringScrumReact.jsSwiftShopping CartsWordpressInternet MarketingSocial Media services

About

Engineering leader at Github building reliable, large-scale systems used by millions of developers, and passionate about uplifting women in tech! Speaking Engagements • Github Universe - https://githubuniverse.com/How-Intuit-is-overhauling-legacy-engineering-practices-at-scale-with-innersource/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgFb2M14hnE • Girl Geek Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOs4-iqA9n0 • Article Interview at http://bit.ly/1QsIY4l • Podcast interview: https://soundcloud.com/techheroes_podcast/episode102 • codenewbie: https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/what-is-quality-engineering • Open Source Contributions - San Diego Javascript Meetup • Demystifying Open Source - San Diego Startup Week • Career in Sciences Panel - UCSD • CodeNewbie Podcast Interview • Intro to UX and Prototyping for Girl Develop It • "React 101" Workshop - San Diego Javascript Community • Guest Speaker for Quality Assurance Class - UCSD Extension • Workshop Teacher - Girl Develop It Front End Development Series • Guest Speaker - ZIP Launchpad, SDSU Startup Incubator • Guest Speaker for Quality Assurance Class - UCSD Extension • Golden Hill K-8 School - "What is it like to be a Software Engineer?" • Intuit Front End Summit - "Mobile Automation" • San Diego Startup Week - Tech Talk on Quality Engineering Principles and Prototyping Workshop • Women in Computing @ UCSD - Panelist • Girl Develop It Leadership Summit • Geek Girl TechCon - Speaker • Quality Engineering Tech Talk - RIT • Women in Science - San Diego • Phi Sigma Rho Chapter of Women in Tech • GA Tech Women in Engineering Group

Experience

18 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
16 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Github / microsoft

Senior Engineering Manager - GitHub Actions Compute

Aug 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • The actions compute engine team ensures the massive capacity required to power Actions runners.
JavaScriptWeb DevelopmentTestingJava.NETHTML+8

Anitab.org

Open Source Day Chair

Jan 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Open Source Day (OSD) is an all-day hackathon (including workshops), in which participants of all skill levels learn about Open Source while contributing to projects designed to solve real world problems. https://ghc.anitab.org/programs-and-awards/open-source-day/

Intuit

3 roles

Engineering Manager - Enterprise Architecture, Open Source and InnerSource

Promoted

Apr 2018Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • Dev manager for the engineering team responsible for Tech Ecosystem Metrics Infrastructure, tech capability taxonomy tooling and data, Ecosystem Performance improvements, TechCulture, InnerSource and Open Source tooling.
  • Global Technical Leader and co-created the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at Intuit
  • Global Technical Leader for driving and scaling the InnerSource Initiative at Intuit
  • Responsible for planning, driving and tracking the engineering roadmap , engineering product reviews, and input goals balancing the business needs with technology goals.
  • Stewards top tech talent: Recruit for intern and co-op program and key assessor for software engineer promotion process
  • Mentor, coach and develop engineers on the team - Conduct monthly check-ins and regular 1:1s.
  • Conduct mid-year and year-end reviews as well as the local promotion decisions for SW1 to SW2 engineers.
  • Responsible for ensuring high quality and availability through prevention, monitoring, and resiliency strategies, and quickly resolving production issues for all the tools we create.
  • Partner with PM, PMO, and Architects to prioritize roadmaps, gather engineering requirements and ensure a timely delivery of our initiatives
Tech Ecosystem Metrics InfrastructureInnerSourceOpen Source toolingOpen Source

Team Lead - Staff Software Engineer - Open Platform

Apr 2016Apr 2018 · 2 yrs · Greater San Diego Area

  • Speaking Engagements
  • 08/2018 - CodeNewbie Podcast Interview
  • 04/2018 - Intro to UX and Prototyping for Girl Develop it
  • 03/2018 - "React 101" workshop for San Diego Javascript Community
  • 02/2018 - Guest Speaker for Quality Assurance class UCSD Extension
  • 10/2017 - Workshop teacher for Girl Developer Front End development Series.
  • 09/2017 - Guest Speaker at ZIP Launchpad, SDSU startup incubator
  • 07/2017 - Golden Hill k-8 school "What is like to be an Software Engineer?"
  • 06/2017 - Intuit's Front End Summit , "Mobile Automation"
  • 06/2017 – San Diego Startup Week - Tech Talk on Quality Engineering Principles and workshop on Prototyping
  • 05/2017 - Women in Computing @UCSD Panelist
  • 01/2017 - Girl Develop it, Leadership Summit
  • 06/2016 - Geek Girl TechCon Speaker
  • 02/2016 - Quality Engineering Tech Talk at RIT
  • Successfully led the deliveries of a newly formed team (Open platform) by establishing development, quality and release engineering best practices to achieve enterprise level standards set by Intuit.
  • Led feature development efforts of amazing experiences for Turbo, a multi-platform application on Web, iOS and android.
  • Excelled at implementing an automated delivery pipeline, with first-class features and quality checks, for Web and Service artifacts enhancing developer productivity, engineering excellence and reducing release times for all the platforms of Turbo.
  • Functioned as technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, leading the team to solve challenging problems as well as technical scoping and design of development projects.
  • Engineer Lead in charge of the recruitment program of 6-month interns from RIT (Alma Mater) as well as Innovation Catalyst for Intuit hosted hackathons and events.
  • Conducted direct reports performance evaluation, career development and perform frequent 1-on-1 meetings.
  • Experienced with running scrum teams and metrics.
React.jsQuality EngineeringScrum

Team Lead - Senior Software Engineer - TurboTax Electronic Filing

Dec 2013Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • Speaking Engagements:
  • 12/2015 - Women in Science, @UCSD Panelist
  • 11/2015 - Phi Sigma Rho Chapter of Women in Tech
  • Led the implementation of quality and release process rigor increasing release quality based on customer impacting defects and availability.
  • Responsible for driving high availability procedures such as; active/active failover, FMEA, capacity planning, performance and load testing, and monitoring.
  • Participation in scoping, estimation and technologies choices for new initiatives
  • Led QE team to achieve CI/CD strategies set by the Intuit QE organization.
  • Mentoring/coaching for team members on quality efforts and engineer principles
  • Pioneered the execution of build validation tests using Java on Production environments.
  • Effectively coordinated E2E testing of key features.
  • Responsible for developing and/or configuring complex Java distributed automation harnesses and reporting systems
  • Drive test architecture, best practices, framework, tools, and systems to reach success metrics
Quality EngineeringJavaLoad Testing

Girl develop it

Girl Develop it - Professional Development Lead

Oct 2016Apr 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater San Diego Area

  • Responsible for providing professional development opportunities to members and connect them with tech companies and their employees in the San Diego community

Thomson reuters

Software Engineer II

Apr 2011Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Part of an agile team responsible of a large scale warehouse of information about people and companies that was sourced from more than 60 publicly available sources, part of the Legal Solutions.
  • Responsible for treating the data for publishing, normalization, aggregation and search.
  • Responsible for the analysis, planning, execution and reporting of end to end testing plans for the data transformation and loading of the data of millions of public records (black, gray, and white box testing ).
  • Responsible for the automation of the transformation and loading process of test data using XML and visual basic in MS Excel.
  • Responsible for the design and development of functional and stress/load/performance data warehouse tests using a risk-based test strategy.
  • Lead in the design and development of a TestNG project for the quality assurance of the warehouse, datamart and ETL architecture.
  • Responsible for the analysis, creation and execution of test infrastructure to manage datamart API releases.
  • Experience with Fitnesse, JUnit, TestNG and Selenium for automated testing and with Jira to report and monitor bugs
  • Improved the QA department processes to work closely with software developers, business partners and supporting teams to better understand product technology and deliver high quality testing.

People+people=business 2 business

Social Media Director

Oct 2010Feb 2011 · 4 mos

  • Internet Marketing, Social Media services, SEO
C#ASP.NETSQL ServerWeb Development

Veterans outreach center

Technology Education Teacher

Jun 2010Dec 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Teacher for Programming and computer skills classes
JavaXMLVisual BasicJUnitTestNGSelenium+1

Pulsafeeder

Software Engineer

Apr 2010Apr 2011 · 1 yr

  • Responsible for the development for various applications in their business systems using C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server.
  • Successfully planned, analyzed and developed the addition of a new product line to their online sales application.
  • Responsible for implementing processes improvements, resulting in increased application efficiency and improved customer service.
  • Partnered with clients and distributors to gather the business requirements necessary to design and implement new application features and functionality.

Emar & co

Founder

Jan 2010Present · 16 yrs 4 mos

  • Emar connects local businesses and web designers from Peru for projects on Web Development, Shopping Carts, Wordpress, Internet Marketing, Social Media services, SEO, etc.
  • We excel at full life cycle project management and post go live support.
Web DevelopmentShopping CartsWordpressInternet MarketingSocial Media servicesSEO

Thomson reuters

Software and Testing Engineer Intern

Sep 2009Dec 2009 · 3 mos

  • Wrote and executed test cases for Westlaw and West Batch public records systems.
  • Responsible for the identifying of code defects and for performing corrective actions for various test applications written in Java.
Internet MarketingSocial Media servicesSEOSocial Media

Welch allyn

Software Intern

Apr 2009Aug 2009 · 4 mos

  • Participated in a SAP Upgrade and Migration Project.
  • Responsible for the accurate creation and execution of Test Scripts for the new SAP modules Performed analysis, correction and execution of old Test scripts for the SAP System.
JavaTesting

Polysistemas sac

Software Engineer

Nov 2005Nov 2006 · 1 yr

  • Lead in the improvement of their sales processes by spearheading the design and developing of a Web Application to manage the full sales order process, internal work orders and printing requirements, using ASP.NET and SQL.
  • Recognized for the creation, analysis, and implementation of personalized client features to their Digital Documents Viewer using J2EE and SQL Server, and improving client satisfaction and increasing sales.
  • Involved in data gathering sessions to define business needs and for the preparation of design/requirement documents.

Net solutions peru

Web Developer Intern

May 2005Oct 2005 · 5 mos

  • Involved in the development and testing of an Extranet for the Sudamericana de Fibras (SDF) Corporation, using ASP.net, SQL Server, Rational Rose. Including Sales orders, quotes conversion, and sales reports.
  • Gathering of business needs and preparation of design and requirement documents.
ASP.NETSQLWeb Development

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelors — Software Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Tompkins Cortland College

AS — Information Technology and Business Administration and Marketing

Jan 2007Jan 2008

CIBERTEC Private College

Technician — Computer Science & Information Systems

Jan 2003Jan 2006

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