About this event
This month’s technical meetup event is an opportunity to learn directly from our engineers what working at DoorDash is like. We have selected a diverse group of panelists to talk about their experiences working at DoorDash engineering. Our moderator, Liangxiao Zhu, VP of engineering, will be leading the discussion as well as facilitating live Q&A at the end of the event.
Agenda:
12:00pm- 12:03pm welcome
12:03pm-12:18pm panelist introductions
12:18pm -12:45pm moderated questions
12:45-1:00pm Live Q&A
Meet the panelists:
Osaide Ogbeifun
Osaide is a Principal Software engineer at DoorDash, since 2017, now leading the technical vision and roadmap for OpEx organization which covers Fraud, identity, Delivery experience, and money teams. He also manages cross functional engineering organization wide initiatives. Osaide has a Bachelors of Engineering from Metropolia University (Formerly EVTEK) in Finland and a MS Information systems from DePaul University.
Varsha Dudani
Varsha is a Director of Engineering, since 2017, leading the Dasher organization with Dasher experience, retention, rewards, satisfaction and Dasher platforms. Before joining the Dasher team Varsha worked in the Merchant organization building and leading multiple teams there for 4 years. Varsha holds a masters degree and bachelors degree from the University of Mumbai with over 20 years of experience in Software Engineering at start-ups and mid sized companies.
Janet Sun
Janet Sun is a senior staff software engineer at DoorDash, since 2018, and now a tech lead for the Consumer Experience in the New Verticals team expanding the consumer experience to convenience, grocery, and more. Prior Janet also managed the Dasher Platform Team in the logistics organization. Janet holds a Bachelors from Cal Tech as well as a Masters Degree and a Doctorate from Stanford University.
Erin Collins
Erin Collins joined DoorDash in April 2020 as a Software Engineer on the Core Infrastructure CI/CD team. She contributes to all things related to automating, debugging, and streamlining our build and release software tooling, most recently leading up the effort to migrate our service deployments to Spinnaker. A Kentucky native, Erin earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from Murray State University. After 10 years developing missile simulation software, she realized her passion for improving software and its processes and went back to earn a Master’s degree in Software Engineering Development Management from Carnegie Mellon. Coming to DoorDash has been an exciting opportunity to combine her passion and expertise into a rewarding career.
Andrew Gomez
Andrew Gomez (Drew) is a new grad engineer, who interned at DoorDash in the summer of 2020. During his internship experience, he enjoyed the people and working environment and decided to join DoorDash full-time in December of 2021. Since then he’s been working on the Dasher Growth team, improving the Dasher onboarding process. Drew has a Bachelors of Science from California State University, Long Beach.
About the moderator
Liangxiao Zhu
Liangxiao Zhu, VP of Engineering: Liangxiao is a VP of engineering at DoorDash, where she is leading the New Vertical organization that is expanding DoorDash's local commerce platform into grocery, convenience, retail, and more. Prior to DoorDash, Liangxiao spent around 10 years at Meta where she was a senior engineering director leading Payments efforts across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus, enabled Ads Billing, Commerce, Creator Monetization, Digital Commerce, Donation, etc. She also launched Facebook Pay to empower everyone around the world to participate in the digital economy. Before Payments, she spent 7+ years building the Ads Product Platform, Business Graph and management and led Developer Platform through Cambridge Analytica. She was one of the site leaders for Meta Seattle/Bellevue offices, and is passionate about building an office DEI culture. Outside of work, she spends a lot of time with her sons, who are 13 and 7 years old. She also enjoys cooking and gardening.
