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Karla Sandoval

Customer Success Manager

Los Angeles, California, United States11 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in aligning technical value with business outcomes.
  • Led initiatives that improved customer retention and growth.
  • Strong advocate for women in tech through community organizing.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Customer Success and Technical Account Management expert with a strong engineering background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Customer Success ManagementProject ManagementAccount ManagementSolutions EngineeringTechnical Account ManagementDeveloper AdvocacyTechnical Program ManagementSoftware EngineeringOpen Source Development

Other Skills

MetaBaseSFDCEscalations ManagementWorkable SolutionsTargeted MessagingTerritory Account ManagementStakeholder ManagementRelationship DevelopmentTableauTAMDefining RequirementsGitProduct InnovationOpportunity IdentificationProblem Solving

About

I help high-growth SaaS companies turn customers into champions. With a background in both business strategy and engineering, I align technical value with business outcomes to drive retention and growth. πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Contributor to Ruby Gems Cork and Pod-Search-Label 11+ MM downloads πŸ‘©πŸ»β€βš•οΈ Lead organizer for Women Who Code Algorithm Meetup SF πŸ”” Let's collaborate Email: k.isabel.sandoval@gmail.com

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
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Current Experience

Tradeverifyd

Senior Customer Success Manager

Aug 2025 – Present Β· 10 mos Β· Los Angeles, California, United States

  • Led a cross-functional product maturity initiative that audited platform functionality and APIs, enhanced developer and onboarding documentation, established persona-based enablement materials, and introduced a structured re-engagement framework for low-adoption accounts β€” improving product clarity, value communication, and customer expansion readiness.
MetaBaseCustomer Success ManagementProject Management

Linearb

Customer Success Manager

Jul 2024 – Aug 2025 Β· 1 yr 1 mo Β· Los Angeles County, California, United States Β· Remote

  • I served as a subject matter expert and product advocate for a book of business made up of 30 Mid Market LinearB customers, totaling $2M in ARR.
MetaBaseCustomer Success ManagementAccount Management

Confluent

2 roles

Solutions Engineer

Mar 2022 – Jul 2024 Β· 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Managed a book of 35+ accounts serving as the main point of technical contact for key stakeholders
  • Identified solutions and strategies to maintain long-term relationships and expand accounts
  • Guided customers through proof of concepts and created product onboarding guides
  • Created and presented bi-monthly product enablement sessions on new feature releases
  • Captured customer feedback and created internal feedback loops with Product, Engineering and Marketing to help evolve the direction of Confluent Cloud
  • Presented Confluent Cloud concepts and demos for bi-monthly product webinars
SFDCEscalations ManagementWorkable SolutionsTargeted MessagingTerritory Account ManagementStakeholder Management+25

Technical Account Manager - PLG for Confluent Cloud

Dec 2020 – Mar 2022 Β· 1 yr 3 mos

  • Building trust with key stakeholders and developers to create successful Confluent Cloud adoption with the use of real-time data streaming, data processing and integrations , and event-driven architecture and design.
  • Assisting pre-buyers, pre-believers and customers with identifying, building and tracking the strategy, goals and metrics for Confluent Cloud deployment and adoption with their current architecture.
  • Providing customers with Confluent deployment and adoption best practices, as well as case studies, white papers, webinars, demos, and live Drift assistance for product onboarding and configuration for customers success based on their specific vertical, tech stack and goals.
  • Leading the strategy to leverage internal resources including product management, technical support, engineering, enablement and professional services to support meeting client needs.
SFDCEscalations ManagementWorkable SolutionsInterviewingTargeted MessagingOutbound Sales+27

Techtonica

Technical Program Manager

Jan 2018 – May 2018 Β· 4 mos Β· San Francisco Bay Area

  • Created new partnerships with developer groups, and sponsoring companies
  • Managed over 300+ Open Source Contributions in our open source GitHub repository
  • Created Techtonica's curriculum roadmap for SWE
  • Managed pre and post-contribution relationships
Escalations ManagementWorkable SolutionsInterviewingTargeted MessagingTerritory Account ManagementStakeholder Management+14

Onapply

Software Engineer

May 2016 – Jan 2017 Β· 8 mos Β· Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

  • Developed an ATS similar to Greenhouse or Lever for EU recruiters
  • Implemented Onapply's UI redesign using HTML, CSS,Javascript, PHP
  • Created tools for automating internal analytics
  • Hosted and organized Onapply's first company Meetup and tech talk
Escalations ManagementWorkable SolutionsStakeholder ManagementTAMGitProblem Solving+4

Runway innovation hub

Developer Advocate

Aug 2015 – Jan 2020 Β· 4 yrs 5 mos Β· San Francisco Bay Area

  • Developer Advocate for EdTech, Blockchain, Data Ingestion for Women Who Code | Mentorkind |Girl Develop It | Rails Bridge | CocoaPods | O(1)Labs | Techtonica | RGSoC |DataVirtuality
Workable SolutionsStakeholder ManagementRelationship DevelopmentTAMDefining RequirementsGit+10

Github

RGSoC SWE

Jul 2015 – Jan 2016 Β· 6 mos Β· San Francisco Bay Area

  • Awarded internationally competitive Open Source grant sponsored by GitHub and TravisCI
  • Created a pod labeling feature for CocoaPods
  • Implemented new features for redesign of a CLI UI module: Cork
  • Added documentation and refactored code
  • Cork is a Ruby Gem, Open Source project, based on and refactored from a CocoaPods
  • Core:CLAide. I worked on Cork during my fellowship with Rails Girls Summer of Code at GitHub. Cork, is a Command Line Interface parser with more than 11MM+ downloads.
Workable SolutionsRelationship DevelopmentProject ManagementGoogle DocsOpen Source Development

Nokia

Technical Account Manager

Jan 2013 – Dec 2013 Β· 11 mos Β· Santa Cruz, CA

  • Improving Query accuracy
  • Reporting and verifying global geographic data
Escalations ManagementWorkable SolutionsTargeted MessagingStakeholder ManagementRelationship DevelopmentTAM+10

Karma circle inc.

Technical Account Manager

Jan 2012 – Jul 2013 Β· 1 yr 6 mos Β· Santa Cruz, California

  • Providing clients technical support
  • Troubleshooting platform issues
  • Testing, replicating, and resolving bugs
  • Triaging customer escalations
  • Creating documentation
Escalations ManagementWorkable SolutionsStakeholder ManagementRelationship DevelopmentTAMDefining Requirements+10

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A β€” Cultural Anthropology

Santa Monica College

Associates Degree β€” Art History

Bay Area Video Coalition

Web Development Certificate β€” Computer Programming

Flockjay

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

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