# Daphne Oakes > TPM@ Grow Therapy | Prev @Lyft @Yelp @Shopify Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/daphne Chief of Staff to the CTO | Software Engineer | Conference Speaker Hi, I’m Daphne! I’m a Chief of Staff to the CTO at Grow Therapy, helping make mental health care more accessible. My background spans software engineering, entrepreneurship, product management, and Android development at companies like Lyft, Yelp, and Shopify. I enjoy public speaking and have spoken at 15+ tech conferences, delivering technical talks and MC-ing large events like JSNation and React Summit. One of my most fun experiences was pitching the world’s first at-home boba machine while building my startup.I am passionate about mentorship and diversity. I founded and served as the first president of Women in Computer Science club at my university. I also launched a mentorship program that connected 100+ CS students for coffee chats. Let’s connect! Email: contact@daphneoakes.com ## Work Experience ### Technical Program Manager @ Grow Therapy Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States ### Chief of Staff to the CTO @ Grow Therapy Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States • Partnered with the CTO to align Engineering, Product, Design, and Data leaders, strengthening cross-org communication, shared vision, and high-value engagement forums. • Led a cross-functional GenAI adoption program, driving 43% increase in engineering usage and establishing governance, tooling, and operating models to scale AI in alignment with company OKRs. • Owned executive communications strategy with the CTO and senior leaders, delivering leadership briefs, company-wide newsletters, and all-hands content reaching 150+ employees and increasing visibility into technical strategy. ### Software Engineer @ Grow Therapy Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 • Collaborated with external stakeholders at Humana to lead API integration by aligning cross-functional teams and streamlining future integrations with standardized code templates. • Established a roadmap to optimize Sentry utilization, forming a task force, conducting surveys with tech leads, and empowering engineers to catch bugs before production with best practices. • Fostered cross-team knowledge sharing and collaboration by running tech talks and championing inclusion initiatives leading the Asian employee resource group. ### Software Engineer @ Lyft Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States (Design systems team) • Maintained the UI component library in React, TypeScript, and HTML/CSS used by 100+ frontend engineers. • Unlocked a $10M government contract by elevating accessibility in all 89 products to meet industry standard (WCAG 2.0). • Collaborated cross-functionally with 3 designers, 6 senior/staff engs to plan roadmap & ensure cross-platform consistency. • Led major release of new UI component library version by devising migration plan focused on resilience and adopted type safety across the board. Wrote thorough documentation and rallied a group of early adopters for safe rollout. ### Software Engineer @ Lyft Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States (Lyft Web App team) • Led shared rides in the web app, gathered requirements, broke down roadmap, ran experiments, and drove features to roll- out, yielding projected annualized impact of $600K profit and $1.5-4.6M bookings. • Led notifications in web to increase promotion and reminder capabilities beyond mobile, reaching 27K new users per year. • Ran monthly Frontend All-hands, breaking down knowledge silos and encouraged company-wide adoption of latest tools. • Unblocked projects by proactively learning backend for notifications and autofill SMS and Android for gift card. • Introduced scheduled rides in the web app, leading to increase of 19.6K+ rides and $530K booking per year. ### Product Manager @ Copysmith Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 • First Product Manager in a 15-people start-up that secured a $10 Million funding 4 months upon inception • Acted as a glue between engineering, marketing, customer support teams, and introducing product release processes. • Led projects to revamp pricing structure and develop a long-term roadmap through customer interviews and analytics. ### Startup Co-founder @ BobaBot Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Built a startup for an at-home bubble tea machine, driving ideation, market research, and timeline management in a team of 6 (https://bobabotbbt.com/). • Secured $100K in funding from investor, entered an incubation program, and won a pitching competiton with a expected product launch in 2025. ### Android Engineer @ Yelp Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Introduced the app rating prompt with Kotlin in the Yelp for Business Owner app to receive user feedback. • Built carousels with nested scrolling content to promote features on home screen, using Kotlin, Koin, RxJava. • Migrated the architecture for Android alert banner from MVP to MVI for with JUnit tests. ### Android Engineer @ Shopify Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area • Developed a notification system on Android with Java, Kotlin, and GraphQL to alert merchants of plugin issues. • Wrote advanced HTML to Android Spannable parser in Kotlin to render nested bulleted list data, described in a Medium article with 2.0K+ views. ### Software Engineer @ Hootsuite Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Vancouver, Canada Area • Added dynamic loading, category assignment, instant search to app store admin page with React, HTML/CSS. • Worked with cross-functional teams to launch Hootsuite app store and implemented API endpoints in Scala. ### Software Engineer @ RBC Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area • Improved a 13-year-old monthly reporting system with SQL and PowerShell scripts. • Automated 250 MB of data lookups with C# and .NET, saving 2 months of time in manual searching every year. ### Google CodeU Participant @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 • Selected to participate in Google CodeU, an invite-only program to be mentored by a Google engineer. • Built a web chat app with Java backend and custom routing for administrators. • Introduced offline support with Javascript by caching HTML pages and CSS using service workers. ### Tech Lead @ UBC Emerging Media Lab Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Vancouver, Canada • Liaised between 7 developers and a professor to build Soil TopARgraphy, an Augmented Reality app for a soil science class, built using Unity, Vuforia, and C#. • Project presented at 3 conferences, released on app stores, and is ready to be used by 250+ students. ### Android Developer @ UBC Launch Pad Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Vancouver, Canada Area • Built Android app in Kotlin to organize photos of notes. Designed photo viewer to pull info from SQLite database with pagination for swiping between photos ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science The University of British Columbia ### Taipei American School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thebetterdaphne - GitHub: https://github.com/daphnitely - Website: https://daphneliu.com/resume.pdf - Website: https://daphneliu.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/daphne JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/daphne/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20