Shannon Coen
Sr Staff Product Manager, Design Engineering Platform
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolShannon Coen is a seasoned product leader with 15+ years of experience building software product teams and delivering outcomes in complex, technical domains such as PaaS, Kubernetes, and enterprise design data. Currently General Manager of Design Technology at Tesla, she has a track record of accelerating engineering workflows—cutting onboarding from months to days, eliminating week-long syncs to save $1M annually, and driving p99 response improvements of 99.9%. She excels at outcome-driven roadmaps, discovery, user research, and ruthless prioritization while fostering sustainable pace and knowledge-sharing cultures. Previously she led networking and marketplace initiatives at Pivotal/VMware and co-led Cloud Foundry open-source projects, where she contributed technical documentation improvements that improved developer experience. Based in Oakland, Shannon combines systems-level distributed architecture fluency with hands-on product execution and mentoring across teams. Her background in Management Science from MIT underpins a data-informed, user-centered approach to product strategy and go-to-market enablement.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Management Science, BS, Management Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
markdown10
markdown-it10
cloud-foundry10
documentation10
technical-writing10
microservices6
configurations6
google-cloud-platform6
paas6
python6
rest-api4
api-rest4
restful-api4
api-design4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/docs-dev-guide
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
Documentation for application developers who want to deploy their applications to Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:17 commits, 16 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Shannon primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the Cloud Foundry platform. Their commits involved fixing typos, proposing edits, and updating various documentation files, including those related to services, routes, and deployment processes. The changes reflect a commitment to enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the documentation for application developers. These updates also involved adding new sections and refining existing content within the documentation.
cloud-foundry
cloudfoundry/logging-route-service
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
A sample route service written in Go.
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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