# Ruthie BenDor > Engineering Leader @ Ironclad Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ruthiebendor Engineering leader with 6+ years management experience across product, growth, and web engineering. Have scaled full-stack and frontend teams, and managed 20+ engineers from junior through staff levels. Track record of transforming chaos into high performance through pragmatic process upgrades and cross-functional partnerships. I lead with curiosity and empathy, cultivating environments where my team members feel trusted and empowered to do their best work. ## Work Experience ### Engineering Manager II @ Ironclad Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Engineering Manager, Operations @ Chime Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States • Initiated, led, and delivered analysis of EM effectiveness and engagement challenges. • Authored roadmap for improving effectiveness and retention of line managers. • Shaped organizational strategy for engineering leadership cohort. ### Engineering Manager @ Pilot.com Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 • Navigated Financial Foundations team through two reorganizations without losing key staff or productivity. • Strengthened team by hiring two engineers, onboarding peer EMs, and improving prioritization and cross-functional partnerships. ### Engineering Manager, Growth @ Pilot.com Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area • Spearheaded Pilot's procurement and adoption of tooling to better evaluate experienced engineer candidates, accelerating Pilot's technical hiring velocity. • Rebooted Pilot’s growth engineering function by defining the team-to-be's mission, strategy, scope, and initial staffing needs in partnership with engineering and product leadership. • Improved fidelity of Pilot's NPS and CSAT metrics tracking by automating metrics-gathering surveys. ### Product Engineer @ Asana Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Improved development efficiency and UI consistency across the product by shipping contributions to Asana's internal design system and component library. ### Engineering Manager, Design System (interim) @ Asana Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Led Design System team as interim manager during leadership transition, maintaining delivery and stability. ### Product Engineer @ Asana Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Delivered key features for Asana's integrations platform, expanding the product's ecosystem and third-party connectivity. ### Engineering Manager, Asana.com / Head Of Web Development @ Asana Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Founding manager of Asana.com web engineering team. Directed technical strategy while partnering with TPMs, PMs, and PMMs on roadmapping, business strategy, and operations. Hired, mentored, and coached diverse technical talent across seniority levels. Tripled the Asana.com engineering team (3 to 9 engineers) and restructured into 3 specialized pods. Key accomplishments with each pod: • Growth Pod: Created technical framework enabling rapid experimentation in a legacy frontend. Established workflows for small "bites" and larger "big bet" experiments. Working in tandem with PMM, sped up a/b testing cadence by 300%, accelerating data-driven business decision-making. • Platform Pod: Led successful multi-quarter effort to completely rebuild Asana.com onto a modern and scalable tech stack of web app + headless CMS, using Contentful, React, and Next.js. • Go-to-Market Pod: Cut by 50% time-to-ship for product and campaign launches. Optimized approval workflows in partnership with marketing and design teams. Championed the team's creation of modular landing page components. Improved tag management which enhanced data quality for marketing decision-making. Served as technical SME vetting the SEO framework for Asana.com's global expansion across 5+ markets, ensuring search authority and performance metrics remained optimal. ### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Compology Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Engineering Manager @ Automatic Labs Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 • Managed teams of 2-4 engineers to prototype and deliver external products & internal services. • Delivered a web app integrating Automatic's platform with car dealership software. • Delivered a rebuild of a critical internal microservice that tracks whether Automatic's hardware works with a given vehicle. • Delivered a React web app that gives the parents of teen drivers insights into their teen’s driving habits. • Rewrote & maintained the uptime documentation (runbooks) used by all on-call web engineers. ### Lead Web Engineer @ Automatic Labs Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 • Rebuilt automatic.com to be mobile-first, responsive, maintainable, and consistent with the company brand through two reorganizations. • Refactored automatic.com to be decoupled from web services stack, enabling rapid development and zero-downtime deployments. • Raised code quality by writing CSS/SCSS and JS lint rules, implementing automated linting across all frontend codebases, and mentoring teammates in best practices. • Served as release manager and rotating on-call engineer. ### Design Technologist @ fuseproject Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 • Rebuilt fuseproject.com frontend, implementing a performant, mobile-first, responsive design. Wrote two jQuery plugins to sift and display homepage content. • Led development of fusedspace.com: built node.js backend & responsive frontend, scoped and delivered post-launch tweaks, and trained staff to maintain the site's content. • Created a lightweight prototyping tool that mimics a native iOS app using web technologies and static screenshots, enabling team to better share interaction design ideas with multiple clients. • Re-architected fragile CSS for a WebSockets-based web app. • Built a proof-of-concept DirecTV-esque UI as a performant, smoothly-animating web app intended to run on low-end digital displays. • Built a proof-of-concept thermostat UI as a mobile web app with dial-twist and button-tap gesture detection. • Gave well-received technical talk about responsive web design best practices. • Trained colleagues on HTML and CSS basics and current browser capabilities. ### Teaching Assistant @ General Assembly Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 • Co-taught a ten-week front end web development course to 30 students. • Led lessons on functions and looping in JavaScript. ### Fellow @ Code for America Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 • Worked with the city of Santa Cruz, CA on simplifying small business permitting. • Led the development of OpenCounter, an online tool to guide local entrepreneurs through the city’s business permitting process; tool has since been adopted by 36 more cities. ### Founder & Organizer @ BostonEErs: Boston ExpressionEngine Meetup Group Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 • Founded, grew membership from 1 to 100, and organized monthly meetings of technical user group for ExpressionEngine CMS users in New England. • Delivered 20+ informative presentations and facilitated dozens of technical discussions. ### Webmaster @ GLAD Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 • Maintained, supported, and extended the capabilities of GLAD.org. • Wrote custom event registration, donation, and online raffle tools in PHP/MySQL. • Designed and built HTML email templates. ### IT Manager @ MassEquality Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 • Provided office-wide technical support, built email campaigns, and edited and uploaded videos. • Built an ActionScript interactive map of the voting record of each Massachusetts state legislator. • Following a successful political campaign, redesigned massequality.org to fit ongoing mission. ### IT Manager @ American Anti-Slavery Group Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 • Overhauled and maintained office network and email systems. • Migrated donor database into a new software package. • Redesigned organization's blog and online calendar. ### Webmaster @ San Diego High School Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 Maintained content and wrote frontend code for high school website while a student there. ## Education ### Computer Systems Engineering Boston University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ruthiebendor - Website: https://github.com/unruthless - Website: https://www.unruthless.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/ruthiebendor JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ruthiebendor/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05