BizBooks: Camille Fournier

Camille Fournier is an engineering executive and author of “The Manager’s Path”, as well as the editor of “97 Things Everyone Should Know About Engineering Management.”

She is the former Chief Technology Officer of Rent the Runway, a transformative brand that offers unprecedented access to designer fashion, disrupting the way millions of women get dressed. She is also a member of the engineering leadership team at Two Sigma Investments. She is an open source contributor and project committee member for both Apache ZooKeeper and the Dropwizard web framework.

Prior to working for Rent the Runway, Camille served as a software engineer at Microsoft, and most recently, spent several years as a technical specialist at Goldman Sachs, creating distributed systems for managing risk analysis and firmwide infrastructure. She has a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Camille is a well-respected voice within the tech community, speaking on a variety of topics such as engineering leadership, distributed systems, scaling teams, and technical architecture. In 2017 she released her book, “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change.”

Get her book here: https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897

About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and  Entrepreneur. He runs a 10 company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.