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Jocelyn Goldfein is the former director of engineering at Facebook, and former vice president of engineering at VMware.
Early life
Goldfein attended Stanford University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1997.
Career
After college, Goldfein started her career at Trilogy. Later, she spent seven years at VMware, eventually becoming vice president of engineering. From there, she moved on to be director of engineering at Facebook where her teams worked on several features, including news feed and search. She is currently a guest lecturer at Stanford University, an angel investor and advisor.
She spoke at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2012, and delivered a keynote address at women2.0's HowTo conference in 2014.