Zita DePetris

Director of Engineering

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States12 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led teams achieving over $25 million in annual revenue growth.
  • Spearheaded critical product and compliance initiatives.
  • Architected data solutions enhancing real-time performance.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with a strong focus on data architecture and team management.

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ResearchCommunity OutreachVolunteer ManagementNon-profitsPowerPointFundraisingMicrosoft OfficeCritical ThinkingPublic SpeakingEditingHigher EducationMicrosoft ExcelFacebookSocial MediaTeaching

Experience

12 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Reddit, inc.

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2025Present · 9 mos

Github

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

Drizly, an uber company

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2021Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Led 3 teams, overseeing the majority of the consumer engineering department
  • Owned critical functionalities, including login, search, site navigation, checkout, and cart across multiple platforms (Android, iOS, desktop, mobile).
  • Championed metric-driven feature development, averaging over 6% quarterly growth in target metrics, translating to over $25 million in recurring annual revenue.
  • Spearheaded planning, strategy development, and stakeholder management
  • Led technical direction for pivotal cross department business projects, including product changes, large scale refactors, and FTC security compliance

Renaissance learning

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Managed a team building a company-wide data mesh platform with Terraform as infrastructure as code.
  • Transitioned the existing SQL ETL pipeline to cloud computing using dbt, Snowflake, and AWS.
  • Developed and scaled a freemium product line to support 8x our previous customer base.
  • Doubled the size of the team to support growth in product

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2019Dec 2019 · 2 mos

  • Managed several junior engineers and led strategic projects across a full-stack team
  • Iterated and built out new features in the primary customer-facing application.
  • Worked in Python and Java on the back end and Angular and React on the front.

Schoolzilla pbc

2 roles

Senior Data Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2017Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Architected a Python/Flask based data aggregation service to facilitate moving Tableau reports to a single-page app.
  • Utilized SQL ETL processes to transform raw data from 100+ sources and formats into normalized tables, allowing us to deliver data to consumers performantly in a real-time environment.

Data Engineer

Jul 2014Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

The achievement network

Data Analyst

Jul 2013Jun 2014 · 11 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Provided technical and analytical support to some of the largest school districts in the US using Tableau, SQL, and Visual Basic

Education

North Carolina State University

Computer Science

Bowdoin College

European History

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