Lesley Cordero is currently a Staff Engineer at The New York Times. She has spent the majority of her career on edtech teams as an engineer, including Google for Education and edtech startups.

She is primarily focused on platform engineering and reliability management, particularly in the observability space. Her leadership style focuses on cultivating a culture that builds with the most vulnerable employees in mind first, and she shows care for others by holding them accountable to the best versions of themselves – and by buying them the occasional bubble tea.