Summary
Theresa Decola is a product manager with 10 years of experience building design-forward, user-focused software products and cross-functional teams. At Cisco Meraki she led the creation and company-wide adoption of a multi-platform design system of 40+ components and drove a major dashboard rewrite to achieve UI consistency and API/GUI parity. Her work has increased engineering velocity dramatically (from under one page per quarter to 23 pages in a recent quarter) and produced rollout and roadmapping practices adopted across the organization. Prior roles at Splunk, Tesla, and in academia show she balances technical rigor—optimization modeling and mobile UX—with program-level coordination and large-customer presentation experience. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, she pairs an engineering background from the University of Waterloo with a track record of making complex systems more consistent, scalable, and inclusive. A less obvious strength is her emphasis on culture and teaching—she’s led offsites, diversity initiatives, and large-scale instructional programs that amplify team performance.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, ENGINEERING, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, ENGINEERING at University of Waterloo
English, French