Prior to joining Gradient, Denise spent six years as a product manager. Most recently, she was a PM on the Meta AI platform team where she built infrastructure tools for ML workflows. Denise previously spent time at Twitter as a senior PM where she launched products ranging from ad tech and social commerce to real-time data analytics. After grad school, she joined the Walmart e-commerce APM program where she scaled merchant-facing products for Walmart marketplace and supported the post-acquisition integration of Jet.com.

Denise obtained an M.S. in software management from Carnegie Mellon University. In her spare time, you can find her cooking, doing cardio, or hunting for the best chocolate croissant in the Bay Area.