Summary
Sophie Novati is a seasoned software leader and founder focused on equitable access to fulfilling tech careers. As Founder & CEO of Formation since 2019, she runs an engineering fellowship that places engineers from overlooked backgrounds into high-impact roles, pairing fellows with senior engineers at top companies to ship real products. Before Formation, she co-founded Allo (YC W19) and served as a Staff Software Engineer at Nextdoor, where she built core mobile features, launched the New Hire Buddy Program, and led an initiative to raise unit testing coverage from 17% to over 50%. She began her career at Facebook as a software engineer and intern, gaining experience across large-scale platforms, and is a Carnegie Mellon CS graduate. Based in San Francisco, she blends hands-on engineering with people-centric leadership to transform talent pipelines in tech.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University