Vicky Chin
Vicky Chin — VP of Engineering, Firefox at Mozilla. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.
VP of Engineering, Firefox
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++.
Past talks
2 talks · 1 eventBuilding in the Open: Transparency as a Delivery Advantage
Open source transforms product development, the roadmap is visible and feedback arrives early. Vicky Chin shares how Firefox leverages this visibility to accelerate practical delivery. Learn how engaging the community and previewing in-progress features through Firefox Labs generate quick insights, allowing teams to minimize rework, concentrate engineering efforts on user-validated needs, and improve quality before launch. Outcomes: - Build a “preview to learn” loop that validates demand early and keeps delivery focused. - Decide what to expose and when using clear criteria for readiness, while assessing for risk and user impact. - Turn community feedback into actionable product decisions through lightweight triage and signal scoring. - Apply open development patterns that strengthen product, design, and engineering alignment without slowing velocity.
Who Owns Product Quality in the Age of AI
AI is compressing the distance between idea and execution. Engineers design. Designers generate code. Product managers prototype. The traditional boundaries of product development are shifting and so is accountability. When the cost of delivery tends towards zero and iteration is instant, the bottleneck moves from code delivery to product judgment. How do we make sure our features are adding value and not just complexity and bloat? Who defines quality? Who is accountable for coherence across teams and products? How do leaders maintain standards as workflows become fluid? What does a high-performing product organization look like when the linear team model no longer applies? This executive session brings together product, design, and technology leaders to examine how AI is reshaping ownership, governance, and competitive advantage.
