Grew from an informal technical leader into leading Figma's engineering organization. His accounts of team structure, quality weeks and exploration show the operating choices behind a collaborative product.
Engineering leaders who scaled technical teams, platforms and infrastructure. Selected for documented work, including past roles.
Cosign
Helped build Cloudflare services including Universal SSL and coauthored its Gen X server design. His experience connects ambitious infrastructure products with the architecture and economics that make them work.
Lara led engineering at Etsy and Kickstarter, then turned that experience into concrete tools for managers through Wherewithall and Resilient Management. Especially useful on the hard people work: feedback, team communication and helping new leaders find their footing.
Former Netlify VP of Developer Experience
Helped scale Dropbox's engineering organization from under 100 to more than 1,000 engineers. His writing tackles how technical quality and executive responsibility evolve as the team grows.
Intercom's second outside hire helped grow engineering past 90 people while the company shipped more than 100 times a day. His experience is a concrete study in scaling teams without giving up delivery speed.
An engineering leader willing to revisit his own playbook. Mustafa authored Shopify’s five-year React Native retrospective and its later return-to-native decision, exposing the changing tooling and platform trade-offs behind a major mobile strategy shift.
Led engineering at Carta, Calm, Stripe and Uber
Connected Dropbox's billing and subscription work with growth and monetization, then led engineering at Plaid. His experience shows why durable ownership matters as both products and teams expand.
Principal at ChromeRose and Technology Advisor at Kindred Capital
Built engineering leadership layers at Monzo and later helped design and hire geoSurge's engineering organization. Her craft is making the organization work as deliberately as the technology.
David helped turn a WireGuard prototype into Tailscale as its founding CTO and now builds exe.dev. His accounts of prototypes, discarded ideas and cloud infrastructure make him a compelling guide to finding the simplest technical product people actually need.
Built GitHub tools; leads Homebrew
Executive IC at Spellbook; former CTO of Shopify and VP of Engineering at Atlassian.
Helped turn Shopify's engineering knowledge into a shared handbook and built its Dev Degree approach to learning on the job. His work treats developing people and sharing context as engineering infrastructure.
Led Lyft's Kubernetes migration after building deep-learning infrastructure at OpenAI. She brings hands-on experience turning demanding infrastructure needs into systems teams can build on.
Keavy led the work behind GitHub Apps and the Checks API—concrete platform projects at the intersection of engineering and product. She now advises teams on technical strategy, with a sharp focus on who owns decisions when technology, people and product priorities collide.
Improved Ruby performance at GitHub
Scaled engineering across Gojek's countries and products. His operating accounts offer a ground-level view of the organizational work behind a fast-growing, multi-service technology business.
Makes high-stakes infrastructure understandable: at Monzo, Suhail works on the platforms behind reliable software delivery in a regulated bank. His talks unpack the migrations, automation and incident communication that let engineering teams move faster without losing control.
Joy gets specific about engineering decisions that are easy to hand-wave: what actually breaks an API, and which technical debt is worth paying down. Her work at Imprint and practical writing connect technical judgment to customer impact and business priorities.
Helped GitHub grow from 9 to 250 people
