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Megan Campbell
Senior Engineering Manager with experience in team growth, technical direction, delivery systems, and organizational impact. Practical work includes Design reviews, Code review mentoring, Incident follow-up, Delivery planning.
Experience
Etsy
New York / Brooklyn · United States
Senior Engineering Manager
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, translated engineering strategy into team ownership and technical investment decisions, balancing roadmap commitments against reliability work; documented which work was deferred and the risk accepted.
- With responsibility for the review standard, established technical review expectations and an engineering growth rubric; used project evidence in coaching conversations so promotion recommendations were tied to demonstrated scope rather than visibility.
- Reviewed design proposals and incident follow-ups with engineers, assigned mentoring through real code reviews, and adjusted delivery scope when staffing and operational load conflicted.
- Led a retrieval quality review using candidate-generation traces, resolved conflicting performance and reliability targets and approved a staged personalization experiment.
- Designed code-review and mentoring assignments using observed skill gaps, reduced repeated design-review findings by 29% over the next delivery cycle.
Datadog
New York · United States
Engineering Manager
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Replaced status meetings with written decisions, risk reviews, and weekly demos; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, replaced status reporting with a shared record of decisions, risks, and next owners.
- Reviewed a proposed change against the existing interface contract, reproduced a reviewer’s edge case, and added the missing test or example before merging the change.
- Investigated a failure reported by a downstream team using the exact version and input they supplied. Reduced it to a reproducible test, delivered the fix with compatibility notes, and confirmed the original case passed before closing the report.
Selected project
Engineering Manager — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Funded a reliability roadmap from the top 8 customer-impacting failure modes; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Built an isolated fixture with normal, malformed and interrupted inputs; recorded the expected response before running the implementation so failures were distinguishable from a changed assumption.
- Packaged the reproduction steps, configuration and regression tests with the project; checked the instructions from a clean environment and documented the unsupported cases instead of claiming production readiness.
- Owned the independent regression fixture using isolated inputs, resolved a failing edge case and released a reproducible test package with expected outputs.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Computer Science
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks
Skills
Role expertise
Design reviews · Code review mentoring · Incident follow-up · Delivery planning
Publications
- Published an independent technical note using the project’s before-and-after traces, explaining the failed assumption, regression coverage and cases the implementation does not support.


