Shelly Stuart is a people-first engineering leader and Director of Engineering at CircleCI with nine years of experience scaling teams and delivering reliable back-end services. She builds high-performing, diverse engineering organizations through data-driven process improvements that increase predictability, reduce incidents, and minimize burnout. Shelly has reworked hiring and technical assessment practices—piloting Textio, creating objective Greenhouse scorecards, and replacing whiteboard interviews with pair-programming assessments—to improve candidate quality and inclusivity. Her technical leadership spans Golang, Ruby, Java and cloud-native patterns (including introducing Golang and Kubernetes training and earlier work designing AWS Lambda systems). Known for mentoring managers, orchestrating complex team splits with clear communication, and championing dedicated time for innovation, she pairs empathetic people management with measurable outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology, 3.95, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology, 3.95 at Nazareth College of Rochester
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