# Janet Wiener

> Software Engineer at Vibrant Planet

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/janetwiener

Creating tools to enable data-driven decisions: design, implementation, user outreach, education.
Data stores and distributed systems. Technical leadership.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Vibrant Planet
Jan 2021 – Present
Generalist: solving software engineering problems across the company. I partner with product and the environmental scientists to do everything from building apps to understanding data and constructing data pipelines. Data model, Web apps, Data import, Data analysis. Roadmap, Project management, Mentoring...

### Software Engineer @ Slack
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Rimeto
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
Generalist: I figure out what needs doing and do it. Data model, API, www/mobile UI, Data import, Data analysis. Roadmap, Project management, Mentoring...

### Software Engineer @ Mixpanel
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, CA
Technical leadership: vision, roadmaps, communication, team coordination, mentoring.

Data analysis tools: design, implementation, user outreach, education. Data stores, data pipelines, logging infrastructure. Focus on real time data.

User-facing announcement platform.

### Software Engineer @ HP
Jan 2002 – Jan 2010 | Palo Alto, CA
Database and data warehouse query operator design, query execution robustness, short and long-running query workload management.

Performance analysis of distributed systems.

Scheduling of jobs to increase completion rate of high-value jobs, reduce cost of running jobs, reduce power usage of data center.

### Software Engineer @ Compaq
Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 | Palo Alto, CA
In-memory hyperlink data store for AltaVista. Web structure and crawling policy design using the hyperlink store.

X86 interpreter and run-time type checker for C programs.

### Research Staff Member @ Stanford University
Jan 1995 – Jan 1998 | Stanford, CA
Coordinated data warehouse project and led implementation effort of 6 graduate students.

Developed pre-XML query language over semi-structured data.

Taught data warehouse portion of summer courses for professionals.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science
Williams College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/janet-wiener-52625659

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Last updated: 2026-04-12