Kristen Olsen is a technical leader with over 20 years of experience growing and developing leaders and teams at scale.Kristen Olsen started in the tech industry over 20 years ago to pursue her dream of improving people’s lives through software development. She studied Computer Science at Cal Poly and her career has been a tour of many of the large technology companies that people love - including Intel, HP, Apple, and Adobe (then Macromedia). After those opportunities, she started working for LEVEL Studios helping to manage a team creating websites for large companies. From there she moved to Apple as a Senior Engineer helping to write the services that Developers use to make applications available on iOS and Mac devices, and was part of the team who launched the Apple App Store. After that she got to lead multiple different teams at Amazon which led her to NerdWallet as a Director of Technology. She now has the pleasure of overseeing the Purchase Experience Funnel for Alexa Shopping. Alexa Shopping’s goal is to build features so convenient that millions of customers worldwide use them every day across Alexa-enabled devices, stores and Amazon desktop and mobile. The Purchase Experience team’s goal is to make purchasing with Alexa trivially easy for customers by building delightful purchasing CXs, enabling other teams to build high-quality specialized CXs faster and extending our systems to provide easy-to-connect offerings for developers, brands, and skills.Kristen lives on the Central Coast of California with her amazing husband Joe and two sons who are always at the ready with hugs. In her free time she loves to spend time with family and friends playing video & board games, being a part of a church community, and making things.
Listed skills include Java, Sql, Javascript, Css, and 44 others.