Whitney is an engineering manager at Medium, an ad-free online platform for readers and writers. She has been a notable speaker at Lead Dev and Business of Software conferences on the topic of OKRs and their effectiveness as a goal-setting framework.

Before joining Medium, Whitney held engineering roles at Apple, Amazon, Visa, and Braintree. She has a BS in Computer Science from Spelman College and currently lives and works from her tiny home in Austin, TX.