Wendy Ginsberg
About
I'm Wendy. I'm currently based in the US working at Slice as the Senior Director of Product for our Consumer Products. Previously, I spent 2 years as the Principal Product Manager for Personal Banking at Monzo, and 5 years as a PM at Google, half in London and half in San Francisco, where I worked across Hardware, Chrome, and Maps. I was born and raised in New York, but have lived and worked across the U.S. in California, Washington, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania. I also spent 5 years living in London.
News & Talks
- Interview on The Web Platform Podcast (#137), Google Developer Days Europe | www.thewebplatformpodcast.com
- "Learn how Google's Polymer team builds a top-class frontend library for their users.", Product Café interview | https://product.cafe
- Keynote Opening Remarks, Polymer Summit 2017 | Copenhagen, Denmark
- Future, faster. Unlock the Power of Web Components with Polymer, Google I/O 2017 | Mountain View, CA
- Google’s Polymer zeroes in on ES6 compatibility, interoperability, InfoWorld
- Polymer & Web Components, Women Who Code | London, UK
- Building PWAs with Polymer, Jfokus 2017 | Stockholm, Sweden
- Polymer & Modern Web Development, Hack@Brown Tech Talk | Providence, RI
- A Polymer Experience, Polymer Summit 2016 | London, UK
- Making Telepresence more useful, News from Brown | Providence, RI
Experience
- Slice, Senior Director of Product Management for Consumer Product
- Monzo, Principal Product Manager for Personal Banking
- Google My Business, Product Manager II for Merchant Trust & Growth and Merchant Reviews
- Google My Business, Product Manager I for Merchant Trust & Growth
- Google Chrome / Polymer Project, Associate Product Manager II
- Google Store, Associate Product Manager I
- DreamIt Ventures, Developer intern & application reader
- Redfin, Developer intern for Commerce Team
- Brown University Computer Science Dept, TA for 3 courses
- Brown University History Dept, TA & Fellow for 2 courses
Blog
Education
I graduated from Brown University in 2015 with a concentration in Computer Science. While in school, I took full advantage of the Open Curriculum by taking classes in 14 departments and assistant teaching 4 courses. As a Fellow in the History Department, I focused on Native American studies. Outside of class, I was involved in competitive debate, theater production, and peer advising.
Projects
- Rupify, turn any text into a rupi-kaur-style poem
- CLI Arcade, a collection of cli-based games like blackjack and hangman
- Sweater Weather, a web app that lets you know if it's sweater weather today based on a US zip code.
- Julian Monitor, an ongoing RasPi/Arduino project to monitor my lizard's tank and track conditions.
- Movie Run, a web app to help 2 people make a decision
- Did the Knicks win?, short updates on knicks scores
- Lizard Pic, get a weekly text with a picture of whatever you want
- Hack with Polymer, intro to polymer for college hackers
- Redfin Events, post and sign up for free classes with Redfin
- Beatle Bot, markov chain 5th beatle writes her own lyrics
- Beam++, telepresent skype-on-wheels with a neck & arm
- Yelp Suggestion Engine, CLI search and kmeans recommendation engine
- Tetris, a Tetris java applet
- Call Your Grandma, remind yourself via sms to call grandma
- Musical Forum Ticketing, sell tickets online for student theater
- High Altitude Balloon launch, giant balloon went 75km into the air