Julie is the co-founder of Sundial, a modern analytics platform that turns raw data into visuals and insights to help teams make better, faster decisions. Before that she was the VP of Product Design for the Facebook app, where she helped scale the service from 10 million users to over 2 billion during her nearly 14 years there. Her field guide to management, The Making of a Manager, became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller and was selected as one of Amazon's Best Business and Leadership Books that year.

She writes about technology, design, and leadership on her popular blog and mailing list, The Looking Glass. She graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University, and lives with her husband and three children in California's Bay Area.