Modern Technical FundScout and Advisor
May 2025 — Present
Backing founders building software for engineering, data, and security teams.
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Utkarsh Sengar Hacker and builder, always learning. CTO at Webflow. Ask me about building products, distributed systems, distributed teams, remote work and growth engineering. I also scout and advise early-stage founders building software for engineering, data and security teams. I tweet about Webflow, startups, remote work, engineering teams and code.
Utkarsh Sengar Hacker and builder, always learning. CTO at Webflow. Ask me about building products, distributed systems, distributed teams, remote work and growth engineering. I also scout and advise early-stage founders building software for engineering, data and security teams. I tweet about Webflow, startups, remote work, engineering teams and code.
Career
Cowboy VenturesScout
Apr 2023 — PresentSan Francisco Bay Area
Helping startups raise pre-seed and seed rounds.
WebflowCTO
Apr 2022 — PresentSan Francisco Bay Area
Joined as Director of Engineering in 2022, then Senior Director and VP of Engineering; CTO since Aug 2026. Still 🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢
UpworkSenior Director of Engineering
Jun 2017 — May 2022Remote
Led engineering for Upwork's client-facing product. Earlier built out Acquisition, Onboarding and Growth engineering (incl. Project Catalog) and the enterprise platform as Upwork went public in 2018.
OpenTableSenior Software Engineer
Apr 2015 — Jun 2017San Francisco Bay Area
Data infra and science, working on Tetris.
eBaySenior Software Engineer
May 2011 — Apr 2015San Francisco Bay Area
eBay Innovations and new ventures. Fraud detection with Trust and Security, then RedLaser: built search on Solr with a Python relevancy API, ran its infrastructure, and open-sourced cassandra-river.