Maria is currently VP of Engineering at Google, and has also served as VP of Engineering at Meta, LinkedIn, Tinder, and Yahoo. She was a Venture Partner at IDG Capita and founded Alike, a mobile local recommendation app, which was acquired by Yahoo in February 2013. Before starting Alike, Maria was a Principal Software Development Manager at Microsoft, a Product Team Lead at Zillow.com, and a Senior Software Engineer at NetIQ Corp. She holds Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics degrees from the University of East Michigan and Tsinghua University.

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