Maria Gutierrez is VP of Engineering Strategy and Operations at Twitter. In this role, she drives operational excellence in Twitter’s growing engineering org. Previously she was site lead for Intercom London and led their R&D Operations function with a focus on building a healthier and effective Product and Engineering organisation at scale. With over 20 years of experience in the software industry, Maria has previously also worked at FreeAgent as VP of Engineering, at LivingSocial leading globally distributed teams, and at Adobe where she worked in the developer technologies group.