Sophie Novati
Founder CEO at Formation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSophie 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
Github Skills (12)
uilabel5
slack-bot5
swift4
python-bot4
detectors4
ios3
python3
chat3
bots3
slack3
chatbot2
bot-framework2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sophaz/gitpractice
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
This is a free public repo intended to use for git practice.
Contributions:34 PRs, 43 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 7 months
public-repogit-practice
sophaz/novagraph-ios
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 9 tags, 1 comment in 2 months
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