About
Maude is an engineer at Cursor, working on the big, thorny problems that come hand-in-hand with rapid growth. Previously, she was a Principal Engineer at GitHub, where she worked on Copilot Code Review, data partitioning, and domain isolation. Before GitHub, Maude was a Senior Staff Engineer at Slack, where she founded and led the backend performance infrastructure team. Over nearly 8 years, she was responsible for large-scale load test tooling, performance regression monitoring, and successfully onboarding the world’s largest companies to Slack as the product scaled from 60,000 users per team to over 2 million. When she doesn’t have her nose in a flamegraph, you can find Maude building strong, empathetic engineering cultures. In October 2020, Maude published “Refactoring at Scale” with O’Reilly Media, a blueprint for how technical leaders can successfully navigate large, complex refactors.