Primary Job Title Senior Engineering Manager Primary Organization Google
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
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Tara Hernandez is a specialist in software engineering infrastructure having developed procedures and tools at several Silicon Valley companies. Her most notable stint was at Netscape Communications Corporation where she initially helped develop new tools such as Tinderbox, Bugzilla, and Bonsai, and later helped adapt those tools to a public
environment as part of the creation of Mozilla.org and the release of the Netscape web browser as open source. Later she moved to Pixar Animation Studios where her team reinvented much of the development infrastructure to handle the challenges of writing software in a film production environment. Now she is Senior Director of Systems and Build Engineering at Linden Lab doing really Fun Things(tm) with deployment pipelines and cloud technologies for virtual worlds. In her copious amounts of free time she blogs hopefully useful things about engineering management, is an Associate Board member of Women Who Code, and hosts the 'Women Who Code Radio' podcast.
