Dev Collective

Ayush is a Director of Engineering of Monetization and Growth at Figma. He is well-versed in all aspects of Product-Led Growth and Go-to-Market.

Previously at Meta, Ayush ran organizations in Ads Platform and Growth, scaling a number of platform teams from $0 to ~$XB in revenue. Ayush has also founded a number of startups, including Kofa (building the data fabric that powers business outcomes) and Fancy That (acquired by Palantir).

Outside of work, Ayush loves to run, bike, and eat food.

Emma serves as CTO of Stripe UK and Head of Engineering for Stripe's London Engineering office. She grew the London engineering office from 0 to 50+ people and is an expert on Fintech, Payments, Issuing and Money Movement.

Prior to Stripe, Emma spent 8 years at Google and was a Director of Engineering for Charlotte Tillbury Beauty.

Emma enjoys angel investing and has been a Sequoia Scout and part of Blossom Capital's Angel Program.

Harold is an experienced technology executive with a cloud infrastructure and developer tooling focus. He is currently SVP of Hashicorp's Infrastructure product line, where he leads the Terraform and Packer products. He has had a 4 year tenure at HashiCorp where he has held a variety of leadership roles, including leading the organization through Hashicorp's IPO.

Previously, he held VP of Engineering roles at Iterable and Heroku.

Harold has many hobbies. In his free time you'll catch him playing drums or guitar, attempting to learn latte art, and spending time with his family at the beach.

Prathibha Deshikachar is a Vice President of Engineering at Pinterest, where she holds a leadership role in the Monetization organization. Her team is dedicated to helping businesses of all sizes utilize Pinterest's advertising platform to inspire Pinners and foster business growth.

Prior to her role at Pinterest, Prathibha served as a Senior Director of Engineering at NextRoll, focusing on addressing challenges in search, machine learning, and information retrieval/processing.

Prathibha enjoys angel investing and provides advisory support to numerous startups. Beyond her professional pursuits, she finds joy in reading, hiking, exploring new destinations, and indulging in culinary experiences as a food enthusiast.

Tony was most recently a VP of Engineering at Rippping, overseeing all aspects of the Rippling platform and building the products and capabilities that enable all the product lines of Rippling. During his tenure, he has helped scale the engineering org from 60 to 600+ and built the core platform and HR products from scratch.

Before Rippling, Tony was the founder and CTO of a YC-backed startup and had previously held various engineering positions within Periscope, TellApart, and Twitter.

Wendy was most recently a Director of Engineering at Airtable, focused on AI and new product lines. Previously, she led the Platform organization including Search, Dev and Product Infra, and Integrations. She also built Airtable’s Growth org and is passionate about blending elegant products and go-to-market.

Previously, Wendy was an early engineering leader at Pinterest. Her team developed the full suite of ad offerings available to advertisers, which drove over $1B in revenue by the time of IPO.

Outside of work, Wendy enjoys advising startups and most sports from open-water swimming and cycling, to pickleball and dance.

Willie currently runs engineering for Notion’s Scale organization. The group includes infrastructure, enterprise, API, platform, and the India engineering site. Previously, Willie managed and built the Infrastructure team, including developer experience, core backend systems, cloud infrastructure, security, trust, and privacy.

At Airbnb, Willie was an Engineering Manager on Airbnb's Infrastructure team, managing the Developer Infrastructure group, which provided building blocks across the develop-build-test-deploy space.

Outside of work, Wilie is a reader, traveler, hiker, skier, and mountaineer.