Work History

Product-focused engineering leader with 10+ years of experience driving full-stack teams to ship business-altering customer experiences.

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New Relic

2019 — current

Lead Software Engineer

React, Node.js, TypeScript, Apollo/GraphQL, Kafka, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Terraform, Java, Kotlin

  • Drove product strategy for Intelligent Alerts: shaped a year-long roadmap from a one-line brief and delivered next-gen features — ML-based thresholds, noise remediation, and intelligent gap detection.
  • Built and scaled a high-volume Node.js Apollo service powering all public-facing Alerts GraphQL APIs, handling 775M+ monthly requests.
  • Formed and led a new product-led growth team, increasing adoption of the new alert notifications pipeline by 900% within months.
  • Modernized the Alerts UI, migrating from Angular 1.x to React and unifying the alerting strategy around NRQL-based alerts.

Goldstar

2018 — 2019

Ruby Developer

Ruby, Docker, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, RSpec

  • Led development of a new Ruby-based marketing platform, unifying audience data to power targeted advertising and personalized member outreach.
  • Integrated legacy gift certificate systems with a modern payment gateway and built a seamless refund interface.

Planet Argon

2013 — 2018

Developer Lead

Ruby on Rails, Javascript, jQuery, SCSS, Webpack, PostgreSQL, EmberJS, D3, Bootstrap

  • Served as technical lead for 6+ production Rails applications, ensuring quality delivery and ongoing product success.
  • Client work included Screaming Circuits, Pac Global, The Oregonian Recipe Box, and the TechTown Diversity Survey — see the Portfolio for full case studies.

Education

Portland State University

Bachelor of Arts, Arts & Letters — 2014. Focus in graphic web design.

What people say

“Corinne is one of the most capable technical leaders I've worked with in my career. I completely trust her impeccable judgement on architecture and user experience. She has deeply and tenaciously solved every technical challenge I've seen her encounter. She has also successfully negotiated the sometimes difficult and ambiguous relationships between teams and leaders in large engineering organizations. She can bring multiple teams together to build compelling user experiences with high quality on top of sophisticated, high-scalability distributed systems. She's also a lot of fun to work with, and works hard to make her team successful through her leadership and mentoring. I would love the chance to work with Corinne again in the future!”

Mitchell HuffMenne

Software Engineering Team Builder — managed Corinne directly at New Relic