Vicky Chin

Vicky Chin is VP of Engineering for Firefox at Mozilla, where she leads engineering for Firefox and has progressed through senior leadership roles across Firefox Desktop, Desktop Product Development, and Firefox Performance. She also serves as a Board Member at the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the non-profit behind Let’s Encrypt.
Before Mozilla, Vicky spent 15 years at IBM Canada in compiler and compilation technologies leadership. She managed cross-functional teams spanning product planning, development, test, and performance across multiple languages and platforms, including C, C++, Swift, COBOL, Fortran, and LLVM on Power. Her work included release leadership for major compiler products, driving end-to-end delivery, quality and performance outcomes, stakeholder alignment, and mentoring teams of engineers through growth and change. She brings deep expertise in project management and agile software development, with a technical foundation in C and C++.