Blithe Rocher,
PhD

Engineering Manager at Anthropic

Blithe Rocher

About

Blithe Rocher is an engineering manager based in Alameda, California. She leads an engineering team at Anthropic supporting the frontend for claude.ai. Prior to focusing on software engineering, she received a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Southern California.

Experience

Career timeline

Member of Technical Staff (Manager)
Anthropic
March 2026 — Present
Leads an engineering team supporting the frontend for claude.ai.
Engineering Manager
Google
May 2022 — March 2026
Managed teams and engineering managers in the Serverless organization.
Engineering Manager
Looker
November 2019 — May 2022
Acquired by Google in March 2020.
Senior Engineering Manager
Fastly
July 2015 — November 2019
Initial public offering (FSLY) in May 2019.
Software Engineer
The Groundwork
October 2014 — July 2015
Acquired by Timshel in April 2015.
Web Application Developer
Big Nerd Ranch
July 2013 — October 2014

Talks

Speaking

OSCON 2016
FutureTalks
GoGaRuCo 2014
Distill 2014
eurucamp 2014
Madison Ruby 2013

Education

Academic background

PhD Physical Chemistry
University of Southern California
2011
B.S. Chemistry
Southwestern University
2005