Highlights

“Doa has a unique combination of creativity and hard engineering skills that make her projects exceptional. She leaves her peers feeling inspired and energized. Collaborating with her has been one of the joys of my career.” - Roya Shariat, Impact at Glossier

“It was great to partner with Doa in engineering. She has particular strengths in helping engineers on her team do their best work and helping them feel that their work matters. - Matthew Baranowski, Principal Software Engineer and Senior Director at Glossier

“Doa is a natural born leader, interdisciplinary thinker, and rarebreed of technical folks who embody left brain and right brain. She truly embodies service leadership when it comes to shepherding teams through uncertainty.” - Bo Ren, Managing Director of Early Stage at SVB

“Doa is inspiring to all, and she makes others feel seen and heard. I know Doa will make any company a better place.” - Mackenzie Lindland, Talent Aquisition at CashApp

Direct Managers

“It is rare that you find a technical leader who can communicate a strategic vision as clearly and effectively with an engineering team as she can with CEOs, board members and potential business partners. Doa was able to flawlessly define and execute a product vision while managing a complex group of stakeholders.” - Megan Kelly, Principal at Threshold Ventures

“I honestly feel I’ve learned more from Doa than the other way around. Any manager and employer would be lucky to have her.” - Sid Easwar, VP Technology at Glossier

“Not only is Doa a talented engineering and product leader, she’s creative, empathetic, customer obsessed, and forward thinking.” - Sandy Jeong, VP Digital at Glossier

Cross-Functional Partners

“Doa is a true collaborator — she truly helped me better understand what people want from products. I loved our time together.” - Callie Schweitzer, Head of Community Programs at LinkedIn

“Even though we didn't work on the same team, I felt Doa’s impact at Glossier every day. Her curiosity, commitment to inclusivity, and out-of-the-box thinking made every collaboration a joy.” - Cati Brunell Brutman, Customer Experience Manager at Glossier

“It was such a pleasure working with Doa. She made offline teams feel included in the greater tech organization.” - Elizabeth Tabak, Director of Content at Show Me Your Mumu

Direct Reports

“I learned a great deal from Doa about conducting quality interviews during our shadow interview sessions for evaluating prospective candidates. She did great work in structuring mentoring programs for engineers.” - Sarah Waseem, Senior Front-End Engineer at Amazon

“Doa excels at designing innovative, pragmatic software solutions for difficult, ambiguous problems. She protected the engineers from distraction while also keeping us informed of shifting priorities. It was a pleasure working with her.” - Michael Hoffman, Software Engineer at NYT Games

“I was so fortunate to have Doa as a mentor and confidante. She is a fierce leader, ridiculously smart and one of the most amazing women I know. I learnt and continue to learn so much from her.” - Mayowa Ajiboye, Software Engineer at Justworks Labs

Peers

“I'm so happy to have had the chance to meet Doa. She is down-to-earth and has given me excellent career advice during some rough patches. Many thanks for being a role model for how to thrive in tech.” - Ariel Herman, Engineering Manager at Emergent Works

“Watching Doa cultivate the tech culture as a BIPOC Glossier employee was inspiring and made me want to sit down and have a chat with her to learn about her magic! She’s able to form relationships and advise, not only in her respective org, but to cross functional partners as well. It was such a joy to be her colleague.” - Stixx, Senior Beauty Editor at HypeBeast

“Doa has a fantastic breadth of interests and eng skills. She delivers creative, UX-focused projects, like hacking an XBox Connect for an interactive art installation, and operations-heavy backend projects like ensuring accurate accounting data. She gracefully adapts to being a solo IC on a passion project, coaching a nascent community of interest, and being a pure people manager overhauling our hiring process and improving operational excellence. Whatever the situation calls for, she has a huge toolbox of skills to bring to bear. I also appreciate her aesthetic taste, goodness knows this is a rare trait for engineers, and her vulnerability and candor. In small group discussions, she helped us clearly face challenges and chart a realistic path forward.” - Aaron Suggs, Senior Engineering Manager at Instructure