Lauren Bilbo
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Former Google Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer
Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Worked at Google
Available tomorrow at 10:00 PM UTC
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Lauren's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $259/hr
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Lauren’s Software Engineering Qualifications
Experience level: Manager
10+ people coached for Software Engineering
Hi, I'm Lauren. I am a former senior software engineer at Google and current Stanford MBA. I'd love to help you grow your software engineering career! At Google I grew from a junior engineer to an engineering manager, touching a wide variety of systems. I led projects that spanned consumer and enterprise, scrappy prototyping to multi-year production scale projects, and from building the cloud to building on the cloud. At Waze, I led teams to launch innovative products like the Waze Parking and Gas Discount experiments, creating entirely new revenue streams that generated millions annually. I love coaching engineers through both technical and leadership growth, and have led several engineers on my team through successful promotions. I'd love to chat with you about how to grow your engineering career!
Lauren can help with:
AI Agents
AI Automation
AI Code Review
AI Fundamentals
AI System Design
Architecture
Behavioral Interview Prep
Cover Letters
Frontend Frameworks
LinkedIn Review
LLM Fine-Tuning
Model Development
Networking Strategy
Promotion Strategy
Prompt Engineering
Resume Review
Salary Negotiation
Skill Building
Technical Interview Prep
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Work Experience
Board Member
Sunday Friends
June 2024 - Present
Investment Partner
The MBA Fund
October 2023 - Present
Pre-seed/seed fund that backs entrepreneurs from the Stanford, Harvard, and UPenn ecosystems
Manager, Software Engineering
July 2022 - July 2023
• Led team of 6 engineers to design and launch Waze Parking experiment, a new revenue stream projected to bring millions in annual revenue; partnered cross-functionally to co-own Waze parking strategy and product roadmap • Managed a team of two engineers; oversaw their successful launch of Waze Gas Discount experiment, projected to generate millions in annual revenue • Trailblazed rapid prototyping at Waze, leading a team of 9 engineers to deliver 3 user-facing prototypes in the Waze app within 3 quarters. Established Waze-wide best practices for rapid prototyping • Set technical direction for team of 12 engineers who own the Waze ad serving platform, which serves > 140M monthly active users globally Rapid Prototyping, Technology Roadmapping and +9 skills
Senior Software Engineer
October 2021 - July 2022
• Led 3 engineers in a 1.5 year project to design, build, launch, and land an A/B test framework that enables experimentation on ad serving algorithms to maximize advertiser spend • Established API oversight at Waze, introducing best practices and a review process to enforce quality standards Java, API Development and +6 skills
Software Engineer
May 2019 - October 2021
• Contributed $4 MM in annual revenue by proposing an algorithm to improve ad campaign delivery, then mentoring a junior engineer to design and implement it • Increased average revenue per Waze session 20% in key markets by introducing an ML-based ad ranking algorithm Java, SQL and +3 skills
Supply Chain Intern
Microsoft
May 2016 - August 2016
• Slashed capital expenditure through asset management process for device manufacturing, resulting in cost impact of approximately $50 MM • Enabled optimized capacity investment decisions through custom tool modeling impact of forecasted product demand and sensitivity of yield assumptions in capital spend scenarios • Championed asset tracking tool to monitor current asset state, identify reuse opportunities, and supply data-driven cost-benchmarking models for future asset purchases Lean Manufacturing
Lauren was also given offers to work at
Palantir Technologies
Intel
Qualcomm
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
MSE, Electrical Engineering
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